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Newark’s air traffic outages were just the tip of the iceberg

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Top aviation officials descended on Newark Liberty International Airport earlier this month to declare the air traffic control crisis fixed.

Within days they were proven wrong.

The FAA is short more than 3,000 air traffic controllers nationwide.

At least a dozen instances where equipment or staffing problems significantly affected operations at air traffic centers around the country this year .

In 2003 , the FAA began to scope a “Next Generation ” air traffic control system.

This NextGen system would replace the current infrastructure that had been “developed in the 1940s and 1950s and was no longer able to handle increases in air traffic.

But the delivery year has arrived, and NextGen still exists mainly on paper.

Some critical systems may not come online until 2030 .

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