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Inside Newark Airport’s Chilling 90-Second Blackout
On April 28 at about 1:27 p.m. local time, the air traffic controllers monitoring the skies above New Jersey’s Newark Liberty ...
Newark Airport radar screens terrifyingly go dark again — two weeks after outage wreaked havoc
Audio transmissions captured air traffic controllers alerting at least two incoming planes that the radar screens had gone ...
Another 90-second outage adds to series of troubling incidents at Newark airport
A brief radar outage for Newark Liberty International Airport is the latest in a string of air traffic control failures tied ...
Blackout causes Newark airport delays, Congressman seeks solutions
Air traffic controllers for Newark International Airport experienced a second total blackout of its radar and communications ...
Frightening blackout of radar, radio at Newark airport leads FAA to make urgent changes
Federal officials announced multiple technical upgrades and increased staffing after controllers lost all radar and radio ...
Radar screens that serve troubled Newark Liberty International Airport briefly go dark
One of the region's busiest ports has come under scrutiny since revelations that its tower has lost contact with several ...
A single burnt wire caused horrifying 90-second Newark airport air traffic control outage
The April 28 failure — which left Federal Aviation Administration workers with no eyes or ears — resulted in many controllers ...
Newark’s Blackout Was Just 90 Seconds of a Much Larger Crisis
Projects that could have helped avoid the chaos have been bogged down for years. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has ...
Source: Newark ATC communications blackout happened twice before
A current controller for Newark’s airspace tells NBC News’ Tom Costello that last week’s loss of communications with planes ...