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Times
12-05-2025
- Times
Newark Airport hit by second radar outage in a fortnight
An American airport has experienced a second radar failure in less than two weeks, adding to concerns over the safety of air travel in the United States. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, air traffic control employees guiding aircraft in and out of Newark International Airport in New Jersey were unable to communicate or see radar displays for 90 seconds on Friday. The screens went dark at about 4 am at the facility, in Philadelphia, which oversees air traffic at Newark. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said ground staff were 'unable to see, hear or talk' to pilots. The FAA blamed the incident on its 'antiquated air traffic control system [which is] affecting our workforce'. It is the second blackout the airport has experienced
New York Times
07-05-2025
- General
- New York Times
How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel
On a recent afternoon in Philadelphia, an air traffic controller began shouting that he had lost his radar feed for planes flying in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. Some of his colleagues still had radar but their radios went dead, prompting frantic calls to their counterparts in New York urging them to keep their planes away from Newark's airspace. Then, for 30 harrowing seconds until the radios came back, there was nothing more to do but hope — as they had no means of telling pilots how to avoid crashing their planes into one another. Shortly after that, one controller discovered a trainee, who had been directing Newark traffic under supervision just moments earlier, shaking in the hallway.
