Newark airport experiences another air traffic control outage
CBSN
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a brief radio system outage at the Philadelphia air traffic control center responsible for handling flights at Newark Liberty International Airport.
The FAA said the control center lost radio frequencies for two seconds at around 11:35 a.m. local time Monday. Despite the outage, all aircraft "remained safely separated," the FAA said in a statement to CBS News.
The brief outage is the fourth such incident to take place at Newark Airport since April 28 amid persistent equipment and staffing issues. After the April incident, a second outage on May 9 lasting 90 seconds resulted in 450 flights in and out of Newark being delayed. Another 141 flights were canceled, although heavy rain was also partially responsible for the delays and cancellations.
