A man is outside Terminal C with the airport control tower in the background of Newark Liberty International Airport on May 6, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey.
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The air traffic controllers who guide planes in and outside Newark Liberty International Airport have lost radar and communication with planes before Dawn on Friday in another 90 -second failure, said the Federal Aviation Administration, hours after the Trump administration unveiled a plan to revise aging technology that protected American aerial space.
The breakdown occurred around 3:55 a.m., said FAA. There are far fewer flying planes during the night, so the disturbances were minimal compared to a similar breakdown in the afternoon of April 28, which hampered trips by plane for days.
Several controllers have taken leave due to the stress of this April incident, the FAA said. This has exacerbated low endowment levels in Philadelphia facilities responsible for orienting planes in and outside Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, forcing the FAA to slow the traffic of the airport.
As in the April incident, the left controllers of the Friday failure unable to communicate with the planes and their dark radar screens.
Airlines and working groups said in February that the United States needed billions of dollars in Congress emergency funding to improve air traffic control, which has been faced with both deficit and obsolete equipment.