How 90 seconds of terror contributed to Newark airport's fiasco [View all]
By Ted Sherman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Last week, amid the mounting air traffic control problems at Newark Liberty International Airport, the radar screens went blank.
The radios went out.
And for more than a minute, air traffic controllers responsible for directing big airliners safely in and out of one of the busiest airports in the country could do absolutely nothing about it.
The critical equipment failures were confirmed by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Washington, D.C.-based National Air Traffic Controllers Association, on another day that saw hundreds of cancelled and delayed flights at Newark Liberty, with no end in sight.
Union officials confirmed that on Monday, April 28, air traffic controllers in the Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control center known as TRACON, which manages air traffic control in the airspace surrounding Newark Liberty, temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control.
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