100 Percent Fed Up By Danielle
According to a Bloomberg report, air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for nearly 90 seconds early last week, causing flight delays and cancellations.
The incident occurred on April 28th, contributing to widespread chaos at the busy travel hub.
Following the outage, several air traffic controllers took “trauma leave” of up to 45 days.
Newark air traffic controllers lost radar and comms for 90 seconds in horrifying FAA outage https://t.co/kAjwbh8Sn2 pic.twitter.com/OOJaWoeW7i
— New York Post (@nypost) May 5, 2025
Per Bloomberg:
The incident and resulting reduction in staffing contributed to a week of flight delays and cancellations at Newark airport that pushed United Airlines Holdings Inc. to cut 35 daily round trips at the key hub, its biggest for international departures and a primary gateway for domestic flights. On Monday, Delta Air Lines Inc., which has about 30 departures a day at Newark, said it is also canceling a “small number” of flights due to air traffic control restraints.
The details, which haven’t previously been reported, paint a dire picture of the problems plaguing the Federal Aviation Administration operation in Philadelphia that guides flights into and out of Newark, which handled more than 48 million passengers last year. The facility there has experienced a number of technology failures, said the people…
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