The small model planes and painted runways look like game boards, but they are designed to teach phraseology – the language of air traffic control - and maps to new trainees.

The already short-staffed air traffic control facility in Philadelphia that directs planes in and out of Newark lost five controllers to trauma leave after the first radar and communications ...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump‘s administration announced an unprecedented program to rebuild the nation’s air traffic control system and recruit more air traffic controllers.

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

Air traffic controllers across the country have grappled with radar and communications outages for years, CNN review finds.