Newark Liberty International Airport recently suffered another radar outage on Friday, impacting air traffic control operations. This incident, lasting just over a minute, was caused by a telecommunications failure at the Philadelphia TRACON, which oversees Newark's airspace. The FAA's recent relocation of some air traffic control functions to Philadelphia aimed to improve efficiency, but this has led to repeated safety issues, prompting concerns about the reliability of air traffic management in one of the busiest airspaces in the world. An air traffic controller reported multiple similar outages in recent weeks, raising alarms about safety.
Planes at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport were briefly left flying blind overnight as the airport experienced another radar outage - the second incident in less than two weeks.
Why New York area planes are getting their orders from Philadelphia A Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON, is a facility that oversees arrivals and departures within a given airspace.
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