The FAA is reportedly probing whether a LaGuardia Airport air-traffic controller involved in Sunday’s fatal plane crash could have been distracted by an issue with another jet. The potential distraction – first reported by The New York Times – was a United Airlines flight from which a mysterious odor had sickened crew members.

An air traffic controller at LaGuardia airport has admitted he "messed up" following the crash that killed two pilots.

The Federal Aviation Administration is in the process of trying to hire more air traffic control operators amid a nationwide shortage.

A deadly runway collision at LaGuardia Airport is raising renewed concerns about aviation safety and the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers.

U.S. authorities say they are trying to understand more about the staffing in place at New York's LaGuardia Airport when an Air Canada Express jet slammed into a fire truck on a runway on Sunday evening,