Newark Liberty International Airport, FAA and Outage
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Air traffic controllers handling flights for Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another troubling communications outage on Monday. It is the region's fourth reported air traffic control outage in the last few weeks,
President Trump has blamed former President Biden for air traffic control system failures, when multiple administrations, including his own, failed to fix the FAA’s problems.
The move comes amid ongoing construction, staffing shortages and aging tech failures that have fueled weeks of flight disruptions.
A Federal Aviation Administration official says the main communication lines went down in Denver earlier this week but radar remained online.
A radio failure Monday at the Denver International Airport temporarily affected air traffic control, according to the FAA.
A communication hotline between the Pentagon and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has not been operational since March of 2022.