Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says a new software update prevented a third radar outage over the last two weeks at New Jersey's busy Newark airport when a telecommunications line failed again over the weekend.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy plans to reduce the number of flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport for the "next several weeks."

Newark airport air traffic controllers lost radar Friday morning for 90 seconds. The FAA announced that it plans to install new fiber optic data lines to carry the radar signal between its facilities in Philadelphia and New York. NEW JERSEY - Newark airport is not out of the woods yet.

The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks.

Newark Liberty International Airport suffered another brief air traffic control outage Friday morning, the FAA confirms.

One of the region's busiest ports has come under scrutiny since revelations that its tower has lost contact with several planes in recent months.

Sunday's incident marks the fourth time in the past two weeks that technical problems have disrupted air traffic at Newark.

We have to fix this, because what you see in Newark will happen in other places across the country,” a top federal official said.