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(NewsNation) — A seasoned aerial postulation controller who says helium prevented a imaginable midair collision adjacent troubled Newark Liberty International Airport this period said travelers whitethorn privation to debar that engaged aerial hub until changes are made.
“It’s harmless to fly,” Jonathan Stewart told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” Friday. “I would astir apt debar Newark until thing other is done.”
Stewart said helium has been discussing shortcomings successful the U.S. aviation strategy and the accent helium and his colleagues are nether pursuing his ain harrowing acquisition May 4 portion controlling Newark aerial postulation from Philadelphia. In caller weeks, Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control, oregon TRACON, has experienced highly publicized outages that near controllers shaken.
On May 4, Stewart said, helium saw 2 planes connected a imaginable collision course. Because helium was acrophobic communications systems mightiness fail, helium wrote down the planes’ telephone signs and formation information by manus and utilized "nonradar rules" portion keeping the craft separated.
“I was anticipating losing radar oregon radios oregon both,” helium said.
Stewart, who has a supervisory role, said helium soon fired disconnected an aggravated email to absorption that was leaked online.
“To beryllium enactment successful a concern wherever I’m guaranteed to neglect truly ticked maine off,” helium said. “That’s wherefore I took the steps that I took.”
He recommends an overhaul of the Federal Aviation Administration.
“We don’t request immoderate much managers successful the FAA,” Stewart said. “We request enactment from the top. There’s an aged saying successful the military, which is, ‘Lead, travel oregon get retired of the way.’ So, idiosyncratic needs to bash something.”
The Trump medication has promised to statesman making improvements to modernize the U.S. aerial postulation power system.
