Newark Airport Suffers Another Radar Outage

An air traffic control installation that guides airplanes at the Newark Liberty International Airport suffered an interruption of card radar on Friday morning, the last technological interruption in one of the most busy airports in the country.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the interruption, which affected communications and radar exhibitions at the Philadelphia facilities, happened just before 4 am and lasted about 90 seconds.

A similar interruption of approximately 90 seconds last week, on a Monday afternoon, trips turned to the airport, leaving controllers without way of communicating with the pilots and preventing the planes from crashing each other. Several drivers who worked that afternoon were distressed by that episode and free time, which resulted in several days of low personnel at the facilities, causing generalized delays and flight cancellations.

An air traffic controller mentioned the interruption to the Fedex flight pilot 1989 around that time, in accordance with a publicly available recording of air traffic control communications with pilots.

“Fedex 1989, I will give you here, our areas become black again,” said the driver. “If you care, contact your airline and try to have some pressure to fix these things.”

“I’m sorry to hear that,” replied the pilot.

ABC News reported the interruption above.

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Michael Levendon Contributed reports.