A shortage of air traffic controllers, bungled IT management, outdated technology, and a brewing disaster in our airspace.

Radar screens went down again at New Jersey's troubled Newark Liberty International Airport early Friday — just two weeks after another outage wreaked havoc with mass cancellations.

According to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company, more than 358 departures from Newark have been canceled since April 28, with daily totals ranging from 11 on April 29 to 91 on May 1.

A brief radar outage occurred at Newark Liberty International Airport early Friday morning, lasting approximately 90 seconds. This incident follows similar outages in April and November, raising ...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.

Radar and telecommunications systems for Newark Airport's air traffic controllers failed Friday morning — the second time the two critical systems went down at the same time in less than two ...

Air traffic controllers in Florida briefly lost their radar after a fiber optic line was cut, but the outage didn’t lead to ...

NEWARK, N.J. — A new software update prevented a third radar outage in the last two weeks at New Jersey's busy Newark airport when a telecommunications line failed again over the weekend ...

As few as 3 radar controllers monitored Newark's airspace Monday night, FAA says. May 13, 2025 5:19 PM ET. By . Joe Hernandez ...

NEWARK, N.J. — A new software update prevented a third radar outage in the last two weeks at New Jersey's busy Newark airport when a telecommunications line failed again over the weekend ...