Radar screens at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning.
The outage happened at 3:55 a.m. and lasted about 90 seconds, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Air traffic controllers could be heard telling a FedEx plane that their screens went dark and then asking the aircraft to tell their company to put pressure on to get the problem fixed.
I wonder how frightened the pilots of the FedEx plane were. And, for that matter, the grievously short-staffed air traffic controllers.
In fact, I would imagine any pilots/flight staff using that airport must be terrified. I worry that this problem is likely affecting other airports across the US and it’s a matter of time before we hear of more tragic news. This is horrible and we know why things are the way they are.