A 90-second Newark Airport blackout reveals deep vulnerabilities in U.S. air travel safety, highlighting outdated technology and chronic staffing shortages.
Takeaways
•Outdated FAA technology and risky data routing caused critical radar and radio outages at Newark, fostering dangerous system fragility and repeated failures that unsettle public confidence.
•Efforts to remedy staffing shortages by relocating controllers from Long Island to Philadelphia backfired due to poor planning, with numbers still critically low despite lowered targets.
•Solutions remain slow: government and FAA promise modernization and incentives, but lengthy training pipelines and resource challenges impede rapid resolution, raising nationwide air safety concerns.
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