Air Traffic Controllers Briefly Lose Radar Access at Newark Airport in Second Outage in Two Weeks
- Air traffic controllers lost radar access for 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. on May 9 at the Philadelphia facility directing Newark airport traffic.
- This outage followed a similar incident two weeks earlier caused by issues in telecom lines after Newark controllers moved from New York to Philadelphia, amid a staffing shortage.
- The outages disrupted communications and radar displays, prompting the FAA to slow Newark traffic and causing over 400 delays and 68 cancellations that day.
- Officials highlight about 40 missing controllers in a busy airspace using outdated copper wire infrastructure and call for urgent system upgrades.
- The incidents renewed safety concerns and led to a multi-billion-dollar FAA plan to modernize the air traffic control system, but critics demand faster, decisive action.
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Travellers flying to and from Newark Liberty New Jersey International Airport are increasingly concerned about their recent problems, but above all about two breakdowns that disrupted communications between air traffic controllers and pilots in the last two weeks. The airport is one of the busiest in the United States and last year received nearly 49 million passengers from the most populous metropolitan area of New York. Works on the runways an…
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with aviation expert William McGee about the challenges facing the nation's air traffic control system following two communication outages at Newark's airport.
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