Terminated probationary employees at the FAA include some who work on the team responsible for producing air traffic ...

Hundreds of probationary workers with the Federal Aviation Administration were laid off over the weekend, raising concerns ...

A union says jobs eliminated at the Federal Aviation Administration had direct roles in supporting safety inspectors and ...

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. Other fired FAA employees were working on a ...

A Southwest Airlines jet takes off from Midway Airport in Chicago in January 2023. The firings hit the FAA at a time when it faces a shortfall in controllers. Federal officials have been raising ...

One FAA employee who was fired over the weekend ... We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander posted ...

"The passenger families on that aircraft demand justice, they demand answers, and they demand accountability, and they're entitled to that," attorney Bob Clifford said.

lodged by the Chicago-based Clifford Law Offices on behalf of the widow and children of the passenger, Casey Crafton, 40, of Connecticut, are seeking a total of $250 million from the FAA and the Army.

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal ...