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The Silent Threat in the Control Tower: How AI Is Racing to Catch Fading Attention Before Planes Collide

A new systematic review of 34 studies reveals that while AI models can predict vigilance decrements in air traffic ...
Yahoo Finance

Now arriving: airport control towers with no humans inside

Air traffic controllers for some airports are now miles away, watching the planes on camera In this April 2015 photo provided by Saab AB, a plane takes off beyond a remotely controlled control tower ...
CNN

Government shutdown hits air travel, closing a control tower and causing delays across the country

A pilot preparing to take off Monday from Hollywood Burbank Airport in California took the routine step of radioing the air traffic control tower. But instead of the usual back-and-forth conversation ...
CNN

A private company runs the control tower where a B-52 got too close to a passenger jet. It’s more common than you might think

The control tower where a Delta Air Lines regional jet had to perform an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid colliding with an Air Force B-52 bomber isn’t staffed by the Federal Aviation Administration, ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta airport is vulnerable to air traffic control issues vexing other airports

The crippling air traffic control outages that Newark Liberty International Airport has been struggling with, on top of the fatal Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport midair collision in February ...