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Inside Newark airport’s chilling 90-second blackout

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Controllers braced for tragedy and destruction that some worried they’d be helpless to prevent, according to people familiar with the events.

Controllers were left visibly shaken, with some crying, one of the people said.

The harrowing episode last week was a dramatic acceleration of the downward spiral that the US air-traffic control ecosystem has suffered for years .

The Federal Aviation Administration is currently about 3,000 air traffic controllers short of desired levels.

For now, air traffic has intentionally been slowed at Newark , Duffy said Monday . And while radio outages do occur, there’s rarely a complete failure. “When you have a radar outage, there really is very little that can be done,” said Mann . “You don’t know what’s developing in the meantime.”.

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