{"id":402817,"date":"2026-04-10T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-crippling-shortage-risk-flight-delays-safety\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:55:31","slug":"federal-aviation-administrations-crippling-shortage-risks-mass-flight-delays-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=402817","title":{"rendered":"Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s Crippling Shortage Risks Mass Flight Delays &amp; Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shortage of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262008\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-traffic-controllers\/\"  >air traffic controllers<\/a><\/span> across the United States has been unveiled in an independent report by AviationDB as a &#8216;safety crisis&#8217; that has been going on for decades, and continues to put pressure on airports across the country. In a report shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/generalaviationnews.com\/2026\/04\/08\/controller-shortage-turns-deadly\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Generation Aviation News<\/a>, it has outlined that more than 94,000 NTSB accident records were cross-referenced, revealing that the ATC shortage continues to accelerate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 5,100 accidents had a narrative that air traffic control was a factor or probable cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3992,396,476,14200,420,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-controller","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-delayed-flights","category-faa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402826,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402817\/revisions\/402826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}