A US air traffic controller was suspended after being asleep while a medical flight was landing in Nevada.

An air traffic controller and a supervisor have been suspended after a young boy was allowed to give directions to pilots at New York’s JFK Airport.

An air traffic controller was joking on the phone about barbecuing a dead cat moments before a light aircraft collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson River, it has been revealed.

An air traffic controller on duty during last week’s deadly midair collision over New York’s Hudson River was talking on the phone at the time, safety officials said today.

A BRITISH airliner was among four deliberately diverted into a potentially dangerous thunderstorm area to test the skills of a trainee US air traffic controller, it was claimed yesterday.