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Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Survey on how Flying pilots at Denver International Airport Temporarily lost in contact with air controllers on Monday.
The FAA told Fox Business that part of the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) suffered a loss of communications for about 90 seconds around 1:50 p.m. Monday after the two transmitters covering a room segment have dropped.
Sources have told Denver7 that up to 20 pilots were unable to speak with ATC. However, the FAA said that controllers used another frequency to relay pilot instructions and that the plane remained securely separated. The controllers used another frequency to relay the instructions to the pilots, and there was no impact on the operations, added the FAA.
Newark Airport ‘One of the many volcanoes waiting to burst’ ‘, says Pilot
According to his website, Denver Artcc Covers around 285,000 squares of airspace on some or all the following states: Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.
Travelers are seen in a Security Administration Transportation Security Control Policy inside the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport in Denver on August 19, 2023. (Bing Guan / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The air traffic control system has been under immense pressure for years Persist staff shortages, Obsolete technology and underinvestment in critical infrastructure. These deficits have been developed in recent weeks, while Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, the second most frequent airport in the New York airport system, has experienced consecutive failures within two weeks, each lasting approximately 90 seconds.
Newark airport has struck new delays, a breakdown on air traffic control audio
Air traffic controllers at Faa Installation in Philadelphia lost Radar and Radio communications while directing planes to Newark at the end of April and for the second time in May. The air traffic controllers of Philadelphia Tracon installations are working on Newark arrivals and departures.
Denver International Airport. (Marli Miller / UCG / Universal Images Group via / Getty Images)
In addition to the long -standing problems of the air traffic control system, Newark’s challenges have been still stretched by current construction at the airport, This temporarily leaves it according to one of the two parallel tracks.
In a previous statement at Fox Business, the FAA recognized that the “obsolete air traffic control system affects our workforce”.
A Southwest Airlines flight takes off while United Airlines planes are guaranteed on a track at Denver International Airport. (Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images / Getty Images)
After the first breakdown in Newark, the FAA began to work to improve the reliability of Airport operationsIncluding the acceleration of technological and logistical improvements and the increase in controller staff.
He began to slow down arrivals and departures at the airport to take into account endowment and technology problems in the installation of Philadelphia Tracon.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Transports Sean Duffy and the acting administrator Chris Rocheleau have announced a series of initiatives aimed at improving Newark operations and building a brand new state-of-the-air traffic control system.
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Among their objectives, Duffy and Rocheleau seek to add three new wide -band telecommunications connections between the stars based in New York and Philadelphia Tracon, which, according to them, will improve speed, reliability and redundancy.
Stars is a FAA system that processes radar data for Newark and is based in New York. Telecommunications lines fuel this New York data at the Philadelphia Tracon.
Duffy has planned that the construction of a brand new cutting -edge air traffic control system will take three to four years.