6-minute outage at Denver airport leaves 20 pilots in the lurch in latest terrifying flight snafu

Breitbart ^ | 05/15/2025 | Emily Crane

[ChicagoConservative27]

Denver airport’s air traffic control was reportedly struck by a staggering six-minute outage earlier this week after several radio transmitters suddenly went dark.

The frequency outage meant that as many as 20 pilots were unable to reach air traffic controllers as they descended into Denver International Airport on Monday afternoon, ABC7 reported, citing sources.

A controller eventually made contact with one aircraft on a “guard line,” which is typically only used when a pilot is in distress.

That pilot was then able to contact other nearby planes and tell them to switch radio frequencies, the sources said.

At the time of the ordeal, controllers at the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center were already communicating on a backup frequency after four other frequencies went out of service, according to the one source.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I have Claustrophobia on planes and I deal with it but this is not helping

[ComputerGuy]

Y’all be careful up there. Heah?

[Gen.Blather]

Sounds like something Pete Buttigeg should have started. (He has grown a beard in an apparent rebranding attempt for a2028 presidential run.)

[HIDEK6]

A Buttplug DEI screw up (Buttplug was the DEI guy).

[RoosterRedux]

All these problems with ATC make one wonder if the system wasn't sabotaged by the outgoing Biden administration—rigged to unravel over time.

[adorno]

Sounds like something Pete Buttigeg should have started. (He has grown a beard in an apparent rebranding attempt for a2028 presidential run.)

Pete Buttigieg, the 2028 Kamala Harris. But really like the 2020 Kamala Harris, who was booted out early in those primaries.

[oil_dude]

You would THINK Air Traffic Control Towers would have GENERAC backup power...you would THINK.

[silent majority rising]

“Just land on whatever runway looks open.”

[adorno]

At some point, people will begin to suspect sabotage.

Democrats need to make Trump and his administration look bad, like they have no clue about what they’re doing.

Either problems like the one above occurred as often during biden and weren’t reported, or they are being manufactured now to make Trump and Duffy look bad.

[bigdaddy45]

He’s going to be like Tim Walz. He’s going to learn how to fix a truck and start talking football. Only difference is that instead of a closeted gay guy, we’ll get a real one.