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🇺🇸 NO RADAR, NO RADIO, JUST CHAOS: AIR TRAFFIC BLACKOUT HITS NEWARK
For nearly 90 seconds, controllers literally couldn’t see or talk to planes headed for Newark Airport.
No radar. No radio. Just silence in the sky - and pure chaos on the ground.
Some staff were so stressed they had heart palpitations and some went on trauma leave.
Turns out, America's air traffic tech is older than your parents' CD collection.
Source: Bloomberg
Published at
2025-05-06 12:45:04Event JSON
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