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ABC News: Radar screens at Newark airport went black again overnight [View all]
ABC News - Radar screens at Newark airport went black again overnight
The brief outage happened at 3:55 a.m.
By Sam Sweeney, Clara McMichael, and Ayesha Ali
May 9, 2025, 10:20 AM
Radar screens at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning.
The brief outage happened at 3:55 a.m.
Air traffic controllers could be heard telling a FedEx plane that their screens went dark and then asking the aircraft to tell their company to put pressure on to get the problem fixed.
In another transmission, a controller told an arriving private jet that the airport just had a brief radar outage and to stay at or above 3,000 feet in case the controllers couldn't get in touch during the aircraft's descent.
Last week, an outage at Newark caused ATC computer screens to go dark for roughly 60 to 90 seconds and prevented controllers from talking to aircraft during that time, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the incident. As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration briefly halted all departures to the airport.
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The brief outage happened at 3:55 a.m.
By Sam Sweeney, Clara McMichael, and Ayesha Ali
May 9, 2025, 10:20 AM
Radar screens at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning.
The brief outage happened at 3:55 a.m.
Air traffic controllers could be heard telling a FedEx plane that their screens went dark and then asking the aircraft to tell their company to put pressure on to get the problem fixed.
In another transmission, a controller told an arriving private jet that the airport just had a brief radar outage and to stay at or above 3,000 feet in case the controllers couldn't get in touch during the aircraft's descent.
Last week, an outage at Newark caused ATC computer screens to go dark for roughly 60 to 90 seconds and prevented controllers from talking to aircraft during that time, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the incident. As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration briefly halted all departures to the airport.
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