New Ark Airport Radar, which delays more flights

There was a distance that affected communications and the display of radar in the Philadelphia Triacon area, which directed the planes inside and outside the airspace of the international airport in Newark Liberty. A break occurred at about 3:55 am on Friday 9 May, and it lasted about 90 seconds.

After the first break on April 28, I told the air traffic observer who was on the service on that day CNN “… it was the most dangerous situation you could have.” CNN reported that after the change that was made last July, the radio and radio communications at the airport flow to feed one data from the New York facility, where controllers in the Newark flight management are used to Philadelphia.

the FAA announced a plan To replace the current copper connection with fiber, in addition to adding “three new communications to the New York -based stars, and more air traffic monitors. Until these changes and others are made, the agency also said that the new backup system is being published in Philadelphia, but it is not clear when it will be available.

NBC News Friday interruption reports affected a limited number of sectors, but it is another incident in a series of issues that highlighted problems in the airport aging system and non -employment.

As of 12:30 pm East time, Flightaware Statistics showed 292 overall delays for trips inside or outside Newark, which also suffers from delay due to the runway construction.

while Announcing the cancellation of flying For Newark after the power outage last week, the United CEO Scott Kirby said that the issues “were aggravated as more than 20 percent of the FAA control units of EWR came out of the job,” but a spokesman for the Federation made it clear that the control units were absent as a result of the experience of this painful accident. CNN reported that at least five employees took 45 days of absence as a result. A statement issued by the Federal Aviation Administration said, “Repeated equipment and wireless and wireless communications can be stressful for the specific units. Some of the Philadelphia Triacon controllers who work in Newark and their departure took a long time to recover from multiple pressure in the last power outage,” said a statement issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.