A veteran air-traffic controller at the facility that handles flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport is ...

Jonathan Stewart was badly shaken by a recent close call in airspace around Newark, N.J. “I don’t want to be responsible for ...

Recent technology failures and near misses exposed problems with an antiquated system. The Trump administration has pledged ...

But hiring and retaining controllers has been tough. The current shortage of air traffic controllers is near a 30-year low, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association ...

Stewart supervises the Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility that handles flights headed to or from the busy airport, which in recent weeks has been plagued with flight delays ...

At least five air traffic controllers that work at Newark Liberty International Airport are taking trauma leave.