Officials at Newark Liberty International Airport were forced to deal with another communications and radar outage Friday.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) posted that the outage took place around 3:55 a.m. for roughly 90 seconds, which follows a similar instance April 28 at the Newark Airport.
The findings of FlightAware, a flight-tracking company, show there have been 246 delays and 66 cancellations at Newark as of 11:30 a.m. Friday, CNN reported.
The FAA said that April’s interruption was possibly the result of a data outage between Long Island and Philadelphia, 6abc reported Friday.
FAA Statement
This information is preliminary and subject to change.
There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar display at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace. The…
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) May 9, 2025
Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey spoke about Friday’s incident.
“The airport simply lacks the FAA tower staffing levels, modern technology and infrastructure that we need to make sure that this airspace, the busiest airspace in the world, runs efficiently, smoothly and safely,” he said, according to ABC7.
Following the incident in April, many air traffic controllers took a 45-day leave of absence and reported the outage as a traumatic event under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, ABC News reported.
Just prior to that incident, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy announced his and President Donald Trump’s plan to replace the nation’s “outdated” air traffic control system with one he called “state-of-the-art.” (RELATED: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Announces Plan To Address Air Traffic Control ‘Neglect’)
Duffy said that part of the change will be to replace the copper lines that may have been responsible for April’s outage with lines made of fiber-optic material. He also announced plans to encourage air traffic controllers to stay on and incentivize more to join.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
