In the recent afternoon of Philadelphia, an air traffic controller began shouting that he lost his radar feed for the flying aircraft at the Newwork Liberty International Airport and outside.
Some of his colleagues were still radar but their radios died, the New York’s associates persuaded the Frank calls to keep their aircraft away from the airspace of the net.
Then, for 30 Horating seconds until the radio returned, there was nothing to do without hope – because pilots had no way of saying how to avoid crashing their planes.
Within a short period of time, a controller discovered a trainee who managed to tremble on the hallway a few moments ago.
It was a chaotic scene on Monday, April 26th, and several people in the airspace for the Newarks lost their way to the airspace.
The failure of the system depends on the left side of the day with extreme concern, which requires a mental health vacation that has reduced the level of staff for several days since then. It also encouraged more than a thousand flights to be canceled or delayed in one of the busiest airports in the country, some passengers feel frustrated and abandoned.
The struggles with the staff are irony because the Federal Aviation administration’s decision to transfer some of the aircraft traffic in Philadelphia last summer was intended to increase the head count.
The country’s airline traffic control system has been overwhelmed by the unemployment year after year. The controller ranks were reduced by retirement and training during the epidemic. Since then, it was difficult to appoint new controllers and give certificates. The New York Times reported that existing controllers were tired and severe stress and getting sick for a long time. Some have avoided taking care of the treatment because doing so can endanger the healthcare exemptions needed to do their job. The turnover is frequently, especially in illness, in fear of family turmoil or protection.
Necks Outage and its afterfalls encouraged public outrage.
Transport Secretary Shan Duffy, who oversees the FAA, has called for a “new air traffic control system”. Minority leader New York Senator Chak Shumar says the FAA is “a really noise.” Newark’s largest user, United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby, says the airport “cannot handle the number of planes scheduled there” and “blamed the regulators who are out of the job.”
However, the current and ex -controllers, who requested not to be named for revenge, and people who were observed last week’s confusion said that the controllers were suitable for the situation that the controllers were away from their responsibilities because of the hardships of working under Urere. They described this worrying phenomenon as the completion of the nine -month technical glits that have reduced the confidence of the Neck Team in the reliability of the equipment needed to work.
Last August, in an incident that partially attributed to a third -party technician who accidentally cut data feed from a distant location, according to people who lost the radar for about 90 seconds. A week later, the radar scopes are several times frost, according to the FAA activity log that was reviewed by the Times. Then, about eight months later, on April 25, the lawmakers, which are blamed for a “fried” copper wire, have happened.
Dave Spiro, president of a union professional airline, representing the Airway Transportation System Technicians, said in an interview from the communication lines that feed the fueled sector in Philadelphia, he said in an interview from what we could collect now.
The FAA has said that they are working closely with the facility directors and sellers to solve the national airspace system, especially in the north. Mr. Dofi said the FAA “Slow down the system” to ensure the safety of travelers in the Newark.
The FAA has acknowledged that some Necks Controllers have taken time to deal with the recent conflict pressure. The company said on Tuesday that in some parts of the staff deficit it slowly arrived and slowed down the exit. It also added that it was immediately taken to improve the reliability of operations at the airport, including establishing a new, high-bandwidth data connection at the airport, deploying a backup system in Philadelphia, and expanding staff in the Newark Controller rank.
Mr Duffy is expected to announce additional details of a planned Air Traffic Control Overhole on Thursday, which he has been working this year since a middle clash near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington.
The FAA says in a statement that it is 22 certified Newwork Controllers in Philadelphia and are in many training.
But this is not the whole picture. Due to mental health holidays and other staff issues, according to people familiar with the situation, only 16 certified controllers are currently available to call daily, and will usually need more than twice the number to cover all shifts.
Airlines say – and the FAA recognizes – that regulatory deficit has no rapid solution.
Being a controller for a busy airspace like the Newark, usually in other busy airspaces near the big cities requires nuts-bolts training and experience.
Even a veteran controller who joins the Newark Traffic from the Hub like Atlanta or San Diego, even for the briefs of the Neark, requires special training for one year – usually in an hour – according to controllers with knowledge of 5 or more departure and landing. In addition to these, Newwork Controllers operate traffic on small regional airports, including Tetterborough, NJ
The controllers working in the Nework Airspace from Philadelphia were supposed to be solved rather than the problem. The FAA argued that relatively low expensive expenses near Philadelphia would attract more workers who wanted to buy houses or raise their families and were newly renovated to the Philadelphia International Airport Control Tower.
This step was full of its inception. Some controllers resisted against leaving their peach in Westbury, NY, where they operated aircraft as well as Legardia Airport and Kennedy International Airport and even for decades for decades.
Some controllers who argued to the FAA that the transfer would give unreasonable hardship to their families, they were allowed to stay in the west. Others decided to take their opportunities in Philadelphia, collecting $ 100,000 incentives to do this. Their workstations in the new building, which spent Million 36 million to modernize the FAA, were fitted with real-time tracking technology.
They reported on their new post on July 28.
Newk’s controllers initially worked on a reduced flight schedule to smooth any kinks. However, in the middle of August, with the summer travel view, the standard traffic levels on the outside and outside of the nets started again and the flights were moving normally.
Then on August 2, 28, a Newelphia Nework Controller lost the radar image for about a minute and a half after the mistake of technicians, according to the two at the control center.
The controller was observing half a dozen planes at the moment of the disappearance, including two United Airlines Jets, a man remembered. Since there was no visual image to guide him, he tried to instruct the pilots from the memory of the knowledge of the incident.
“Pay attention to all the aircraft. Radar has lost contact. Radar is lost,” the controller said that according to an audio recording of the event.
Upon returning to the radar paintings, two people said that a flight was good in the Legardia skyline and was flying over the Hudson River.
The controller, who had a decade of experience, Within a few days of the incident, retired, three people spoke about the matter.
Philadelphia’s disturbance continued. Less than a week later, the travelers of Labor Day have blamed the “Data Transmission” problems in the regional system due to the FAA’s related radar equipment problem – a temporary pillar for the out and out of the net – a ground stop and landing.
According to government and union officials at that time, the FAA had transferred the Neark flight data to Philadelphia, when it was transferred to the controllers. Officials said that data was spread initially in Westburry and from Philadelphia instead of the FAA instead of feeding the flight data produced directly to the Nearkia in Philadelphia.
This means that data had to be traveled more and the other center of the system was also at risk of being overloaded by those who were feeling glits, Mr. Spiro, president of the security expert union.
Mr. Spiro said, “This is the target of the cascade failure with the frost.” He was referring to the points representing the aircraft running on the radar screen that, in many places according to the FAA log of the day, a warning persuaded a warning.
The FAA says in a statement that it is establishing a communication system that will not require Philadelphia facilities to depend on a feed in New York.
Controllers said in the last autumn that they did not have the main objection to transferring data and capacity hits, they had long been the source of anxiety. People who have witnessed the recent incident of Philadelphia say that the isolated glits seem like one more trend.
On April 25, a controller made it in his car before breaking down in tears, said one of these people. He has taken the time, added this person and needs to be cleared by a mental health professional before returning.
Mark Walker Reporting contributions.
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