A staggering shortage of air traffic ... FAA training and staffing. According to Earley, there are several things controllers do to ensure nothing is missed. "I work in front of a radar scope ...

The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from ...

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital, writing that the Federal Aviation Administration ... looked at the radar scope and walked out ...

Air traffic controllers ... display system called STARS, the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System. STARS processes radar data for Newark and, according to the FAA, "telecommunications ...

In 2023, a malfunction of the FAA ... reality-TV star, recently called for investing tens of billions of dollars (the exact cost is unclear) to build a “brand new air traffic control system ...

The Federal Aviation Administration ... a telecommunications feed from the New York STARS hub.” The announced improvements come after Newark air traffic controller screens went dark for 30 ...

Driving the chaos are air traffic ... Radar data from Newark is fed to the Philadelphia TRACON through telecommunications wires from the FAA’s standard terminal automation replacement system ...

The second, and more critical equipment failure, was to the radar feed ... because of the scope.” A 2023 FAA Inspector General report showed 20 of 26 critical air traffic control facilities ...

Following a three-day summit with major airlines, the Federal Aviation ... of air traffic controllers, runway construction and bad weather. On Monday, a two-second outage occurred at a radar ...

Unlike an April 28 incident at the facility that handles Newark traffic, radar screens did not go blank in Denver. Franklin McIntosh, the FAA’s deputy head of air traffic control, said during a ...

And it would replace 618 radar systems that have exceeded their lifespan. The FAA's new system also calls for six new air traffic control centers, none of which have been built in the last 60 years.