At the end of April, air traffic control radar surveillance and radio communication systems at Newark Liberty International Airport went dark for over a minute. A week and half later, radar went down ...

On April 28th, communications and radar systems went dark at the air traffic control facility in Philadelphia, where controllers manage the airspace around Newark.

Graves advocated for $12.5 billion in air traffic control modernization as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The money would fund new towers, radar systems and facilities, as well as hiring ...

But currently, air traffic controllers have to use a radar point-and-shoot system from the 1960s. “The screens look like something out of the 1960s and ‘70s,” Bastian said.

Air traffic control system must be fixed to avoid problems like Newark Airport, Duffy says Duffy emphasized that the Newark radar outages and air traffic control shortage are a prime example of ...

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An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.

Congress approved a sweeping budget deal that includes $12.5 billion to modernize America’s aging air traffic control system.

The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks. The Federal Aviation Administration said the ...

Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport were without radar for around a minute and a half Friday morning, leaving staffers without critical safety systems at the nation’s ...

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport briefly lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks, renewing ...