US aviation officials suspend an air traffic controller who was unavailable to help two jets land at a busy Washington DC airport.

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‘Asleep’ air controller suspended

The F.A.A. on Thursday suspended the air traffic controller on duty when two passenger jets were forced to land without guidance from the control tower.

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Air Traffic Controller Is Suspended

Officials were looking into the possibility that the air traffic controller on duty at Ronald Reagan National Airport had fallen asleep.

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Control Tower Unresponsive to 2 Planes in Washington

Newly released Russian air traffic control transcripts convey the horror of the jet disaster which killed Poland’s president.

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Polish leader crash tapes emerge

Spain’s prime minister says his government may extend an emergency decree it has put in place to end a 24-hour wildcat air traffic controllers’ strike.

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Spain may extend strike measures

Spanish air traffic was returning to normal Sunday, a day after the government declared a “state of alarm” and ordered the military to break up a strike by air traffic controllers.

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Spanish Air Traffic Begins to Ease After Strike

Air services in Spain are returning to normal after an air traffic controllers’ strike, but a backlog of passengers remain stuck at airports.

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Strike backlog at Spain airports

Most of Spain’s air traffic controllers have returned to work and airspace has reopened, after a walkout grounded flights and stranded thousands.

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Hope for travellers stranded in Spain

A major walkout by Spain’s air traffic controllers has grounded flights across much of the nation, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers.

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Air chaos Britons ‘putting up with it’

A major walkout by Spain’s air traffic controllers grounds flights across much of the nation, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers.

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Strike halts flights across Spain

Spain’s military has taken over the country’s air traffic control after civilian traffic controllers called in sick en masse.

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Strike causes Spain air travel chaos

Spain closes several airports because of what it says is a shortage of air traffic controllers.

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Spanish airports forced to close

An air traffic control problem delays hundreds of flights in northern Europe over Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

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Radar snag hits European flights