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Recent communications issues at the FAA facility handling flights in and out of Newark airport were not new, officials say. Outages happened at least three times last year. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has more.
The FAA is holding a “delay reduction” meeting Wednesday, seeking to cap the total number of flights at the airport.
Staff shortages and equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport have raised safety concerns in recent weeks.
The Trump administration announced an emergency task force of executives from Verizon, L3Harris and the FAA to fix the communication issues at Newark airport.
At times Monday evening, as few as three air traffic controllers per hour were lined up to monitor via radar the planes flying into and out of the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.