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There is no instant fix of the troubles in the tower ahead of the busy summer travel season, according to interviews with ...
Air traffic controllers across the country have grappled with radar and communications outages for years, CNN review finds.
Tampa, Miami, Denver, Houston and dozens of airports nationwide–have experienced air traffic control outages in recent years.
Staff shortages and equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport have raised safety concerns in recent weeks.
Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International ... said the outage began at 3:55 a.m. and affected a radar approach control facility that guides aircraft in and out of the Newark airspace.
A Federal Aviation Administration official says the main communication lines went down in Denver earlier this week but radar remained online ...
The problems that disrupted flights at New Jersey’s largest airport this spring could be repeated anywhere across the country, so Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is trying to sell Congress ...
Air traffic control staffing shortages and outdated technology ... in place if new technology doesn’t work as intended. The radar and radio blackout at Newark showed how difficult it can ...
By Niraj Chokshi A second air traffic control facility in the United States ... another air traffic facility in Philadelphia had two radar outages in recent weeks that left controllers unable ...
not radar, the FAA's head of air traffic control, Frank McIntosh, said during a House hearing Thursday. This communications failure follows two high-profile outages of radar and communications in ...