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Posted on 05/13/2025 6:07:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
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.
One air traffic controller (ATC) and a trainee will operate every flight in and out of Newark between 6.30pm-9.30pm — despite 15 staffers being the standard requirement for a shift.
A New York-based ATC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, described the situation as “pure insanity” and warned that the schedule shows the control tower for the airport will operate “at bare bones” while between 168 and 180 planes are scheduled to take off and land.
It comes after the New Jersey airport was initially facing a “zero ATC event” — a term used by industry workers to describe the doomsday scenario of no one showing up — Monday afternoon.
“One of the controllers is canceling his day off and coming into work. But that’s not going to safely cover the entire system,” the whistleblower warned The Post.
An FAA spokesperson said there would be “no point at which we will have zero air traffic controllers” on Monday night.
“There are at least three controllers scheduled for each hour,” she said, but did not clarify how many of them were fully certified or trainees.
Only fully certified ATCs are authorized to manage both incoming and outgoing flights.
The control room for EWR typically has five radarscopes which cover different sectors — with one ATC monitoring one each, the source added.
If only one or two fully certified ATCs are working the entire airspace it means they have to juggle all radarscopes and flights in and out of Newark and smaller airports in the area on their individual screens.
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AVIATION PING!...............
“Pete Buttigieg and the union collaborated and moved the [Newark] sector from Long Island [in New York] to Philadelphia last summer in the name of ‘staffing concerns’,” he said.
The corrupt stench of the Biden administration wafts over this.
It sounds like short scheduling during busy times could be a way to make President Trump look bad.
Shut down the damn airport until they get their act together! It’s a danger not only to the planes, but to people and property in the immediate area. Inconvenient? You bet! Necessary? You bet, too!
IMHO. Sabotage of President Trump’s presidency.
And one of many. We're only four months into the Trump-Vance administration, and look at the lengths to which Democrats have gone, and will surely continue to go. Recall Obama advised his minions to "burrow in" to bureaucracies -- and work from the inside....
What will it take to make them divert most of the flights? A crash, i suppose. A bit surprised the pilots don’t refuse to fly into Newark.
this is a smudge of treason and premeditated murder.
Are these government employees that are deliberately staging a walk-out? All calling in sick at the same time? Reagan knew how to handle them. They all need to be arrested. In the meantime, the airport needs to shut down. To continue operations without an ATC staff is malfeasance on steroids.
You are spot-on with both of your posts on this thread, FRiend.
It’s New Jerseyans, so it doesn’t matter if you lose a few.
How many ate taking the 45 day trauma leave...?
This is an illegal job action.
Time to go PATCO on the strikers.
AI can do it.
AI doesn’t take coffee or bathroom breaks...
AI knows all, no training necessary...
AI can...
Ooops.
Cue ‘Trump’s fault.’ /s
Buttheadgeig will never escape this, but I have yet to see anyone assign this to his leadership failures. His political career is OVER.
Now let’s see what POTUS has in store for newsom to derail his attempt to wipe his slate clean for ‘28. That field is rapidly becoming a throng of nutjob activists.
Covid was the back up Obama plan to kill the airline industry.
Yes. The Rats have a backup plan for everything destructive to this country...
Much of the equipment the FAA uses is obsolete as far as technology goes.
It’s not a single person’s fault, but Congress. They didn’t keep the system up to date. The computers, the displays, the radars, everything is piecemeal and cobbled together from several decades. Wiring is old and made for the eras when it was produced, not todays high energy demands.
It would not surprise me that core memory was still being used....................
No way this scheduling isn’t intentional to force a crisis.
Of course it is. That’s what they want, a crisis. Made to order. Even a deadly crash, they would celebrate............
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