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The safety nightmare continues at Newark Liberty International Airport, where all air traffic control will be manned by just one fully qualified person during its busiest time tonight, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Several times over the last year, Newark controllers lost radar or radio service, leaving them unable to talk with planes they were tracking.
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Scripps News on MSNAfter fatal collisions and radar outages, new hearings put focus on air traffic safetyTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy is pushing for billions of dollars of new funding to modernize the nation's air traffic control system, following fatal collisions and repeated outages.
Sunday's incident marks the fourth time in the past two weeks that technical problems have disrupted air traffic at Newark.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says glitches in the system show an upgrade is needed to the technology of the nation’s air traffic control system.