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The safety nightmare continues at Newark Liberty International Airport, where all air traffic control will be manned by just one fully qualified person during its busiest time tonight, The Post can exclusively reveal.
But our air safety system is faltering on more than one front. In late April, the Newark airport — one of the busiest in the country — experienced a radio and radar outage for about 90 seconds. With pilots dependent on air traffic controllers to navigate the busy airspace near airports, seconds of silence could be fatal.
Several times over the last year, Newark controllers lost radar or radio service, leaving them unable to talk with planes they were tracking.
Newark Liberty International Airport has become emblematic of the larger air traffic control situation in the United States. The airport finds itself in the eye of a storm with several problems related to its air traffic management,
With the recent collapse of air traffic control systems at Newark International Airport, air safety again is in the news. The problem is that the US ATC system
Sunday's incident marks the fourth time in the past two weeks that technical problems have disrupted air traffic at Newark.
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Scripps News on MSNAfter fatal collisions and radar outages, new hearings put focus on air traffic safetyTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy is pushing for billions of dollars of new funding to modernize the nation's air traffic control system, following fatal collisions and repeated outages.
The transportation secretary admitted to redirecting his wife through New York's LaGuardia airport but said it was because of Newark’s reliability, not safety.