Efforts the Obama and Biden administrations to reduce the number of white candidates in the air-traffic-controller hiring ...

The Federal Aviation Administration incorporated such efforts into its diversity hiring program. These efforts remained in place throughout President Donald Trump’s first administration. The FAA under ...

As rescue crews pulled bodies out of the Potomac River, and before officials could investigate what went wrong, President Donald Trump blamed a January 29, 2025 plane crash in Washington on diversity ...

Vice President J.D. Vance suggested Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama ordered the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) "not to hire" white people. During a Sunday interview on Fox News ...

The USA Fact Check Team digs into comments made about the FAA and diversity efforts in the wake of the DC plane crash.

The lawsuit alleges that under former President Barack Obama, the FAA replaced a skill-based hiring system with a “biographical assessment” aimed at increasing minority representation.

The FAA announced on Monday it will change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.

President Donald Trump on Thursday took executive action to address FAA hires and aviation safety after an Army Black Hawk ...

On Jan. 29, 2025, a U.S. Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet near Washington, D.C. All 60 passengers and four crew members on the plane, as well as three people on the ...

plus a 2015 Fox Business article and a 2018 segment from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on FAA hiring practices under Obama. During Trump's first term, the FAA actually announced a pilot ...

President Donald Trump calls on a reporter to ask a question in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington.(Alex Brandon / AP) Hours after a ...