Major Mehme at Newark Airport: 80 flights canceled, 40 late outage delayed due to fresh outage
At least 80 flights were canceled and delayed around 40 at the Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday morning amid a back-to-back aviation crisis in Newark. The FAA said in a statement that a telecom issue in the Philadelphia Trackon Area C facility, which guides the aircraft inside and outside Newark, caused the agency to release ground stops for 45 minutes. The operation has now become normal, but this was the third time when air traffic in Newark was affected. According to the FAA, on Friday morning, the radar screen at the airport turned black for about 90 seconds. During the outage, which came to light at around 3:55 pm, air traffic controllers can hear a fedex plane saying that their screen became dark and then asked the aircraft to tell his company to explain to his company to pressurize to fix the problem.
What is happening in American airspace?
This year US Aircrafts saw some of the most tragic accidents this year. On Saturday, Transport Secretary Sean Dafi said he is concerned about the entire airspace of the United States as FAA is using old equipment. “I am worried about the entire airspace,” Dafi said during an interview with NBC News. “The devices we use – enough that we cannot buy parts for the new. We have to go to the eBay and buy parts when one part goes down.”“You are actually working with old equipment. We are working with copper wires, not high-speed fiber,” he said.Dafi said that it is safe to get out of Newark Airport on Sunday, saying that the flights would be extended back to the airport in the interim, while the issue is finalized.He did not say how long the delay and cancellation will last, but said, “In the next several weeks, we are going to have low capacity in Newark. I am organizing a meeting of all airlines serving Newark, they are going to agree to agreen to reduce the ability. So you book, you fly.”“We are creating a new line that goes directly from Newark to Phili Trecon, which controls the airspace of New York,” Dafi said, believes that the summer will be completed by the end of summer.
