Newark air traffic control loses radar again Friday morning, FAA confirms
Source: NBC New York
The FAA confirmed yet another instance of air traffic controllers briefly losing radar in the early morning hours of the day. According to the federal agency, the outage occurred around 4 a.m. and last approximately 90 seconds.
"There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar display at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace," the FAA shared in a statement.
Hours later, a ground stop was put in place until at least 11:15 a.m. due to taxiway construction. On top of that stoppage, the FAA's traffic monitoring program showed that incoming flights were being delayed by nearly two hours.
This comes a week after controllers in Area C of the Philadelphia TRACON, which guides flights in and out of Newark, lost all communication on April 28 with the pilots bound for that airport a near-disaster that is now under investigation.
Read more: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/newark-airport-flights-ground-delay/6258096/
Gee, maybe Eloon and tRump shouldn't have fired FAA maintenance staff.

SheltieLover
(68,594 posts)This is ALL on slobby!
hildegaard28
(496 posts)Has something to do with him. He should not be allowed to touch our important systems like FAA and Social Security. He's got a track record for fucking things up. Just look at Twitter. Expect more issues like this to pop us as long as he is allowed to doggy style the government.
SheltieLover
(68,594 posts)Not so much for DUers, as we know, but for MAGATs. The latter is not good at connecting dots, esp when the image doesn't fit their shitty expectations.
dem4decades
(12,802 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(242 posts)...only work when they really feel like it and only if their barista didn't mess up their morning latte. It can't be the DOGEing of our entire government.... I guess I'll have to wait for Karoline Leavitt to tell me what is really going on....
OMGWTF
(4,733 posts)JBTaurus83
(431 posts)at this point. I don't understand these cuts, rich people fly too...
hadEnuf
(3,215 posts)and assholes named Big Balls in charge of the software.
Canada Kid
(158 posts)Lack of proper maintenance crews are leading to these type of failures. Just brilliant! Our traffic control systems are falling apart just like Elon Fucks stupid Cybertrucks.
angryxyouth
(233 posts)Doesnt seem like anyone is asking if this could be a bad actor testing their control over our infrastructure.