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(NewsNation) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is acceptable to springiness an update connected operations astatine Newark Liberty International Airport arsenic several air postulation control failures astatine large U.S. airports are raising concerns astir the reliability of the nation's air question infrastructure.
At Newark Liberty International Airport, an equipment outage connected Sunday led to dozens of formation cancellations and delays, disrupting plans for thousands of travelers. This marks the third large radar outage astatine Newark successful conscionable 2 weeks.
Shortly after, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, the busiest successful the country, experienced a abstracted aerial postulation power outage, causing wide delays for astir each arriving flights.
In effect to the repeated issues astatine Newark, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced plans to trim formation volume astatine the airdrome implicit the coming weeks. He besides pledged to semipermanent infrastructure upgrades, though helium acknowledged those improvements volition instrumentality years to implement.
Sunday’s outage was traced to a recurring nonaccomplishment astatine a Philadelphia-based radar halfway that controls Newark’s airspace. Nearly 80 flights were canceled, much than 60 were delayed, and the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a 45-minute crushed stop.
Duffy warned that what’s happening astatine Newark whitethorn soon beryllium seen astatine different airports nationwide.
"So now, I deliberation the lights are blinking, the sirens are turning, and look, we person to hole this due to the fact that what you spot successful Newark is going to hap successful different places crossed the country. It has to beryllium fixed," Duffy said Sunday connected NBC's "Meet the Press." "What we're having is immoderate telecom issues, but we're besides having immoderate glitches successful our software, arsenic the accusation comes in, it's overloading immoderate of our lines, and the strategy goes down."
Over the weekend, Atlanta besides faced important formation disruptions, with arrivals halted for much than an hr portion technicians worked to resoluteness the issue.
