An airport control tower at Newark Liberty International Airport. Andres Kudacki/Getty Images
Andres Kudacki/Getty Images
Newark Liberty International Airport has been a mess the past week, with hundreds of flights cancelled and hundreds more delayed. It was triggered in part by an incident on April 28, when air traffic controllers for the airport experienced a radar and communications blackout. They were unable to reach approaching planes.
There were no accidents, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy later told reporters that the outage lasted for 30 seconds.
After that incident, several air