Posted on 05/15/2025 11:11:43 AM PDT by DFG
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.
“It’s one thing to lose track of one airplane because you can’t communicate with them, but to lose track of all of the airplanes that you had communication with,” David Riley, a retired air traffic controller, said.
“And from my understanding, in this situation, they still had radar coverage, but that’s like watching a car crash happen and not be able to do anything about it.”
The Denver mishap is just the latest in a spate of air traffic control issues — including repeated outages at the troubled Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey that have sparked mass cancellations.
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Denver airport needs to install battery backup system.
Lawyers rub hands and wait.
Watching the radar range.
Where did you get that blouse? And those shoes…
Will the air traffic controlers get to have a 45 paid day off trama leave like their Newark brothers?
I’ll never get over Macho Grande.
Are the Chinese playing games? Maybe their recent installations activity in Cuba needs more attention.
Something strange is going on, for sure.
all the equipment is antiquated, we have a lot of problems in SoCal and one frequency appears to be Down for the Count now at SoCal approach.
121.5 and 243.0 are generally distress freqs. Would have been easy to to a Pan Pan and let folks know Denver can’t handle their business (blue states).
So odd that a) this is happening and b) they just pee their pants when it does. Like they never train for this?
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LOL!
No one ever has. No one ever will. Tough place that Macho Grande.
Sid that satanic devil hourse lose it’s electrical power?
If it’s in the air, I ain’t there.
They managed to get “terrifying” again in the headline for the third event of this type. The media loves to start a fire so they can report it..
You beat Johnny by 6 posts!
1975 lost departure frequency 121.5 came in over the same line!
“Why I don’t like to fly”
“Sabotage?”
gotta be ...
Makes you wonder if some hacker is playing footsies with the airline transportation since outages have been reported at several airports. Example Die Hard 2.
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