The air site visitors controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport misplaced their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks.
The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned the radar on the facility in Philadelphia that directs planes out and in of Newark airport went black for 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. Friday. That’s just like what occurred on April 28.
That first radar outage led to tons of of flights being canceled or delayed on the Newark airport prior to now two weeks after the FAA slowed down site visitors on the airport to make sure security. A number of controllers additionally went on trauma depart after that outage, worsening the prevailing scarcity.
The FAA mentioned earlier this week that it’s putting in new fiber optic knowledge traces to hold the radar sign between its amenities in Philadelphia and New York. Officers mentioned among the traces connecting these two amenities are outdated copper wire.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy introduced a multi-billion-dollar plan Thursday to exchange the nation’s growing old air site visitors management system to forestall issues like this from occurring and provides controllers trendy expertise.
Officers developed the plan to improve the system after a lethal midair crash in January between a passenger jet and an Military helicopter killed 67 folks within the skies over Washington, D.C.
However the shortcomings of the air site visitors management system have been recognized for many years. The Nationwide Transportation Security Board has not decided that an issue with the air site visitors management system brought on that crash close to Reagan Nationwide Airport.
