Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 09/05/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
The FAA reported a second outage for Newark, New Jersey, in less than two weeks. The incident raises questions about the state of air traffic control in the US. On Friday, the facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lost its telecommunications signal. Industry insiders say air traffic controllers and pilots have training to handle outages. The latest outage has heightened scrutiny on the Trump administration. On January 29, a mid-air collision killed everyone on board both aircraft. US Congress member Josh Gottheimer calls for an increase in staffing at the FAA. Trump officials have slammed past administrations for doing too little to update the existing air traffic control systems.
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Weird how all this shit just worked like 120 days ago.
