US EditionNewark’s airport chaos frustrates carriers, worries travelers
- On April 28, Newark Airport experienced a communication and radar outage that lasted over a week, causing widespread flight disruptions.
- The outage resulted from a failure at Newark Terminal Radar Approach Control, where controllers lost radar visibility and pilot communication, with additional outages including one on May 9.
- This failure forced at least eight planes to divert to nearby airports and led to hundreds of cancellations amid Newark's usual 500-plus daily departures.
- The FAA confirmed the blackout involved a 90-second radar loss at 3:55 a.m., and reported disruptions through an analysis of Flightradar24 data showing affected aircraft looping at various altitudes.
- Consequently, the FAA transferred air traffic controllers who had been based in Long Island to a new center in Philadelphia, and despite ongoing communication disruptions, flight operations gradually started to stabilize.
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What is going on with America’s airports?
It’s been three-and-a-half months since a devastating aircraft collision near Washington National Airport killed 67 people in the worst air crash in the United States since 9/11. Yet, there are no signs at all that air traffic control has shored up US airspace. If anything, the situation is worse.Near misses galore. After the tragic crash near DCA, it emerged that there were at least 10 near misses at the airport over the preceding three years. …
A timeline of chaos at Newark airport: Inside the terrifying last 2 weeks, and how we got here
With a trio of air traffic control equipment failures in little more than a week, Newark Liberty Airport has become the poster child for the problems plaguing the nation‘s airports.
Visualizing the chaos in the skies over Newark’s busy airport after an April outage
On April 28, Newark approach lost radar and comms with at least 16 commercial jets. Many circled in oval loops before landing elsewhere. A CNN data analysis reveals the ripple effects from the outage.
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