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Posted on 05/17/2025 12:39:49 PM PDT by DFG
For 90 terrifying seconds, air traffic controllers responsible for guiding aircraft into Newark Liberty International Airport could do nothing more than pray.
A 'fried' piece of copper wiring momentarily wiped out their radar and radio feeds on May 9 - leaving planes flying blind into one of the world's busiest airports.
FAA planners dismissed the doomsday scenario as an 'extremely remote' possibility when they relocated controllers to a new site in Philadelphia last year.
But an internal report leaked to DailyMail.com suggests senior officials had ample warning that the regulator's antiquated communications system was on the brink of collapse.
The confidential document lists multiple occasions when a dozen or more tower displays failed in eerily similar circumstances across Southern California in 2022 and 2023.
A national safety panel determined the culprit was congested ethernet cabling that couldn't cope with the volume of data traveling between radars and towers.
Ominously, the report concluded that the danger wasn't unique to California because the FAA relies upon the same decades-old tech across the entire country.
Officials insisted that they could mitigate the 'high risk hazard' by installing software patches and having staffers manually monitor the signal.
The rudimentary fix was approved by Tim Arel, the outgoing head of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization.
But it was deemed 'pathetic' this week by Rick Castaldo, a retired FAA engineer, who reviewed the internal report's findings for DailyMail.com.
'Monitoring a failure does not stop the failure,' Castaldo fumed.
'It's nearly the exact same issue that hit Newark. Those f**kers knew this was going to keep happening but they didn't do anything about it.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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It's a whole different topic, but I'll just say that when some kid shoots up a school and the FBI calmly says that "he was on our radar", they are monitoring a failure and making no effort to stop the failure.
“ software patches”
Are they still writing patches for MS-DOS, CP/M, OS/8 and PRIMOS?
A scenario that came to fruition, apparently. I guess it wasn’t so remote after all.
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I’m starting to wonder whether the outgoing admin sabotaged the system.
My liberal ass Obama loving, Biden enabling, Trump hhhhAAAttting cousin asked me, while renting a car to drive back from beach trip after 2 United flights cancelled, “why hasn’t doge fixed this yet?”
Ha!
Somehow, there was no publicity about these events during the Biden administration.
From the fire? A necessary ground wire? Who found and fixed it in 90 seconds? Something smells.
Sounds like the radar performs consistently.
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Oh come on, air traffic control computer systems can’t be THAT complicated, right?
I’m sure it was an easy, peasy fix, just call “1 800 Radar Magic”.
/sarc
Technology has a life same like everything else huh Moe.
“”extremely remote’ possibility when they relocated controllers to a new site in Philadelphia last year.””
LAST YEAR? WHY mention this at all if the writer wasn’t going to expound on it and explain what that had to do with what was going on NOW...
We have to start reading these articles with our minds made up that there are going to be missing details....
Much more important to spend billions on NGOs to import millions of illegals than maintain our sh!t.
I used to work for Pr1me. Haven’t heard Primos mentioned in years.
I never used it. I was just dredging up memories of old, way obsolete operating systems that I had run across.
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