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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“Sabotage?“
I agree. I don’t recall this frequency of “outages” under the puppet regime.
Maybe that’s why they let enemy agents come freely across our borders. If Trump won, they would have people in place to sabotage his presidency in multiple ways. We already know that many democrats are in bed with the CCP.
Our electrical grids are at risk and they already dumped covid on us, so I put nothing past them.
What about Colonel Stewart and Detective John McClane?
In a way, it is a credit to the system and the pilots that were up there. Even if the controllers had not been able to reach them on an emergency channel, those pilots would have diverted and used visual and instruments to safely navigate to alternate airports. I think the real issue would have been if there was a secondary emergency and controllers would not have been able to help.
Democrats always prove they can’t run anything then always run to their media to conveniently blame republicans. Here’s a good example... They’re already trying to blame Trump.
Yeah, 20+ years ago coming into Honolulu, listening to cockpit on the audio.
Some clown piloting a 747 ahead of us dithered getting off the runway. The tower went ballistic trying to re-arrange all the landing aircraft.
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