Audio reveals ominous moment pilot lost contact with Newark
The pilot of a commercial jet approaching New York City's second-busiest airport was greeted with an ominous silence when he tried to contact air traffic controllers during a communications failure.
'Approach, are you there?' the pilot of a United Airlines aircraft said, according to a recording by the website LiveATC.net.
The flight from New Orleans was nearing its destination of Newark airport in New Jersey last Monday as the pilot tried repeatedly to contact controllers during the approach. At last, one responded: 'United 1951, how do you hear me?'
Air traffic controllers in Philadelphia, who were responsible for managing flights arriving at and departing from Newark, found themselves unable to see or talk to the pilots as their communication systems failed. The 'outage', said by
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