It is the second failure in two weeks. Origin of the blackout, which lasted 90 seconds, will be related to connections considered obsolete
The air traffic controllers responsible for the landing at Newark Airport in New Jersey, USA, losing the radar signal again at dawn on Friday-the second time in just two weeks,
According to the Federal Aviation Administration of the US (FAA), the radar of the Central in Philadelphia, which guides flights to the destination and origin at Newark Airport, was inoperative for 90 seconds at 3:55 in the morning (8:55 in mainland Portugal). A similar incident had already occurred on April 28.
Following the first failure, hundreds of flights have been canceled or suffered delays in the last fifteen days. A reality that I warn of FAA’s decision to reduce air traffic as a security measure. The situation was also aggravated by medical lows among the controllers, some of which justified the license for mental health problems arising from radar failures.
This week, FAA announced the installation of new fiber optic lines to transmit the radar signal between Philadelphia and New York control centers, replacing the old copper wire connections, considered obsolete.
Already on Thursday, the Secretary of Transport, Sean Duffy, revealed a plan of several millions of dollars to modernize the national air traffic control system, with the aim of avoiding further failures and providing the most advanced technology controllers.
The modernization plan follows a plane crash in January, resulting in the deaths of 67 people in the heavens of Washington, DC Nevertheless, the National Transport Security Council has not yet concluded that the Air Control System has been the source of the disaster with the Reagan National Airport.
