An airport control tower at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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An airport control tower at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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Newark Liberty International Airport was a waste last week, with hundreds of canceled flights and hundreds of other delayed. It was partly triggered by an incident on April 28, when airport air traffic controllers experienced a radar and communications. They could not reach the planes that approached.
There was no accident, and the transport secretary, Sean Duffy, later told journalists that the failure had lasted 30 seconds.
After this incident, several air traffic controllers took time to deal with stress and trauma. This, in addition to bad weather, a track that is closed for repair and a body of air traffic controller already in the short term, has led to many disturbances.
David Grizzle, the former chief of the farm and chief of air traffic control for the Federal Aviation Administration, said that what happened in Newark is not surprising, given the problems of endowment and technology for several decades. He explains what it would take to repair air traffic control in the United States
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This episode was produced by Alejandra Marquez Janse, Connor Donevan and Noah Caldwell. He was published by William Troop. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
