Newark Airport flight delays: Internal FAA report downplayed risks of data outage affecting air traffic controllers

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Newark Airport flight delays: Internal FAA report downplayed risks of data outage affecting air traffic controllers

Before the FAA moved air traffic controllers who oversee the Newark Liberty International Airport airspace to a new site in Philadelphia last year, the agency’s experts concluded the odds of a dangerous communications breakdown were extremely unlikely: 1 in 11 million, according to an internal report obtained by CNN.In reality, the safety concerns officials downplayed appear to have occurred multiple times since the new system went into place last summer, according to multiple controllers.Data outages – including a failure of about 90 seconds of radar and radio service last week – have repeatedly left controllers without the ability to see ..