An equipment outage at Newark Liberty International Airport last Monday led to a 60- to 90-second blackout of air traffic control radar and communications, according to sources familiar with the incident. The failure rendered air traffic controllers temporarily unable to communicate with aircraft, as confirmed by ATC audio recordings obtained by ABC News. In one… Continue reading Air Traffic Outage at Newark Sparks Major Disruptions, FAA Under Scrutiny
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A Shocking Number of People Leave Laptops Behind at Airport Security Checkpoints
If you’re anything like us, your technology is sort of like an extension of your physical person — so you feel an actual bodily lack if you are too far away from your phone or laptop. (Or did we just give away a pathological personal detail better kept to ourselves?) That’s why we were sort… Continue reading A Shocking Number of People Leave Laptops Behind at Airport Security Checkpoints
Man reunited with $5K he lost at Newark airport
NEWARK — Along with performing safety checks, Newark airport TSA agents are also reuniting travellers with their lost items – which paid off for a New York man who left behind a wallet with $5,000 in it. A wallet containing no ID, several credit cards, and $5,000 in cash was turned in to the TSA… Continue reading Man reunited with $5K he lost at Newark airport