Newark air traffic control loses radar again Friday morning, FAA confirms [View all]
Source: NBC New York
The FAA confirmed yet another instance of air traffic controllers briefly losing radar in the early morning hours of the day. According to the federal agency, the outage occurred around 4 a.m. and last approximately 90 seconds.
"There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar display at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace," the FAA shared in a statement.
Hours later, a ground stop was put in place until at least 11:15 a.m. due to taxiway construction. On top of that stoppage, the FAA's traffic monitoring program showed that incoming flights were being delayed by nearly two hours.
This comes a week after controllers in Area C of the Philadelphia TRACON, which guides flights in and out of Newark, lost all communication on April 28 with the pilots bound for that airport — a near-disaster that is now under investigation.
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Gee, maybe Eloon and tRump shouldn't have fired FAA maintenance staff.
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