FAA Reacts After Another Outage Friday Morning at Newark Airport
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The Federal Aviation Association (FAA) released a statement after the Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another outage early on Friday morning.
The FAA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, “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 outage occurred around 3:55 a.m. on Friday, May 9, and lasted approximately 90 seconds.”
Newark has experienced disruptions since April 28, when air traffic controllers at Philadelphia’s TRACON reportedly lost contact and couldn’t properly guide planes for upwards of 30 seconds, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
Since then, hundreds of delays and cancellations have occurred, which local and federal officials have attributed to technology, staffing issues, and inclement weather. United Airlines, which calls Newark its East Coast hub, subsequently removed 35 daily roundtrip flights.
This is a developing news story and will be updated as more information is available.
