US EditionSoftware update keeps Newark airport radar online but network concerns and flight limits remain
- The Federal Aviation Administration installed a software update on Friday night that prevented a third radar outage at Newark Liberty International Airport over the weekend.
- This update responded to recurring failures of the primary telecommunications line supplying Newark and Philadelphia air traffic control centers, which had caused two previous outages and brief loss of radar and communications.
- The outages forced FAA to restrict flights into Newark, causing cancellations and delays worsened by short staffing from trauma leave and ongoing runway construction at the busy New Jersey airport.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reported that traffic at Newark was stopped for roughly three-quarters of an hour as a safety measure, and he announced plans to look into the 2024 relocation of Newark air traffic controllers to Philadelphia to determine why infrastructure problems continued despite known hardware issues last fall.
- Duffy and President Trump cite the Newark issues as justification for a multibillion-dollar air traffic control overhaul plan unveiled last week, which includes installing thousands of new data connections and replacing hundreds of radars to address decades-old infrastructure problems.
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Software update keeps Newark airport radar online but network concerns and flight limits remain - Boston News, Weather, Sports
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, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday. At a news conference, Duffy also said the recent problems that have led to hundreds of cancellations and delays in Newark could have been avoided had action been taken by President Joe Biden’s administration to better equip the…
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Software update keeps Newark airport radar online but network concerns and flight limits remain
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.
FAA, DOT laying out plans to ensure safety at Newark International Airport
NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) -- Newark International Airport experienced yet another day of cancellations and delays Monday, after experiencing another communications issue on Sunday. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that an FAA software update pushed out Friday night allowed backup systems to kick in Sunday when a main communications line went down. More Local News This prevented a full radar blackout, as we previous…
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