After the fatal collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in January, confidence in air travel safety dropped among Americans.

The FAA is preparing an overhaul of the U.S. air traffic control system, investing tens of billions of dollars into equipment at airports and control centers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - An American Airlines American Eagle jet flies past the air traffic control tower at Phoenix Sky Harbor International ...

The main entrance to FAA's Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fort Worth is pictured, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer Scott Turner used to jump out of airplanes. A ...

Dec. 5 (UPI) --The Department of Transportation announced it selected an integrator to manage upgrades to the U.S. air traffic control system, which in recent years has seen failures and outages that ...

The Transportation Department is pushing hard for the new system to go online in 2028, with a price tag for modernization that could reach $31.5 billion. Peraton has won the massive contract to lead a ...

The problems with the nation’s air traffic control system have been spotlighted during the government shutdown, with controllers working without pay for almost a month and a half and hundreds calling ...

Privatizing air traffic control could help prevent flight delays over the holiday season. Airlines are gradually getting flight schedules back to normal. Congress can shut down government operations, ...

President Donald Trump and former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have sparred over the condition of the air traffic control system, which is complex and carries a history of planned ...

The flight reductions imposed during the government shutdown are now over; the Federal Aviation Administration lifted them early Monday morning. Forty major U.S. airports and more than 5 million ...

Airlines are gradually getting flight schedules back to normal. Congress can shut down government operations, but when airlines cancelled flights, Americans took notice. It’s clear that the Air ...