Newark Airport Suffers Another Flight Control Outage

The New York Times reports:

An air traffic control facility that guides planes at Newark Liberty International Airport suffered a brief radar outage on Friday morning, the latest technological disruption at one of the nation’s busiest airports. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the outage, which affected communications and radar displays at the facility in Philadelphia, occurred just before 4 a.m. and lasted about 90 seconds.

An air traffic controller mentioned the outage to the pilot of FedEx flight 1989 around that time, according to a publicly available recording of air traffic control communications with pilots. “FedEx 1989, I’m going to hand you off here, our scopes just went black again,” the controller said. “If you care about this, contact your airline and try to get some pressure for them to fix this stuff.”

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Air traffic controllers for New Jersey’s Newark airport lost radar again for 90 seconds Friday, FAA says.

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