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(NewsNation) — The aerial postulation controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airdrome mislaid their radar Friday greeting for the 2nd clip successful 2 weeks.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the radar astatine the installation successful Philadelphia that directs planes successful and retired of Newark airdrome went achromatic for 90 seconds astatine 3:55 a.m. Friday. That’s akin to what happened connected April 28.
“There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar show astatine Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides craft successful and retired of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace,” an FAA spokesperson told NewsNation affiliate WPIX successful New York.
That archetypal radar outage led to hundreds of flights being cancelled oregon delayed astatine the Newark airdrome successful the past 2 weeks aft the FAA slowed down postulation astatine the airdrome to guarantee safety.
The FAA said earlier this week that it is installing caller fibre optic information lines to transportation the radar awesome betwixt its facilities successful Philadelphia and New York.
The airdrome was besides experiencing delays of implicit 4 hours owed to aboriginal greeting weather, the bureau said.
