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Frequent equipment failures at Newark Airport became so normalized among controllers that they were often ignored.
Workers in the airport's air traffic country facility in Philadelphia encountered more than 300 unscheduled equipment outages or malfunctions between January 1 and June 1 of this year.
Records show that air traffic controllers handling Newark Liberty International Airport flights have grappled with equipment ...
NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Another outage at Newark Liberty International Airport was reported at the Air Traffic Control facility responsible for arrivals and departures this weekend. The ...
As the dominant airline at Newark, United bore the brunt of the airport's meltdown last month, when failures at an antiquated ...
Hoping to simply scale air traffic control operations with more of the same is certain to hit a roadblock. What occurred in ...
There is no instant fix of the troubles in the tower ahead of the busy summer travel season, according to interviews with ...
Air traffic controllers also still use slips of paper containing flight numbers to help track the approximately 45,000 ...
The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking contractors to modernize its decades-old computer systems within four years.
If you are planning a flight to the USA in the near future, you should know this: Without Windows 95 and floppy discs, many ...
Air traffic control is back in the news. On Apr. 28 and again on May 9, communication system breakdowns affecting Newark Liberty International Airport limited the ability of air traffic controllers to ...