FAA says that the lack of control unit and technology issues means that the borders of Newark Airport Airport will extend to June
Aviation restrictions that have been in the largest airport in New Jersey since then firstThey lost their radar and radioThe Federal Aviation Administration announced on Tuesday for a short period last month in June.
The temporary base will provide a number of expatriates and departure at the Newark Liberty International Airport in 28 each per hour. This is in line with the boundaries imposed after about half of the decorations of the 45 -day trauma control vacationApril 28.
In mid -June, the maximum may collide after the runway construction project will be largely concluded, and the vacation control units are scheduled to return. After that, the Federal Aviation Administration said it may be able to increase the maximum to 34 expatriates and 34 exits per hour, making it closer to 38 or 39 flights usually less and land every hour before the problems.
FAA has taken a number of steps to address technical problems with the update of programs and new optical fiber lines that seem to have helped keep the radar online even during subsequent disorders. But the long -term repair to build a new radar system at the Philadelphia facility that directs planes inside and outside the airport is likely to take months, and even after that, the aging infrastructure may remain at risk.
“Our goal is to reduce the great inconvenience of the audience traveled from excessive flight delays due to construction, employment challenges, and modern equipment issues, which exaggerate during their spread through the national airspace system,” said Chris Roshilo Bennis, Acting Acting.
Currently, the airlines that fly from Newark are likely to reduce their schedules to suit the borders. Once a few flights are set every day, there are likely to have fewer cancellation, although the airport operations were smoother this week with fewer cancellation and delay.
Twice last month, the radar and communications systems on which the Philadelphia Air Movement’s Air Movement is relied on for a short period. This happened because the main line with the radar signal below from another FAA facility in New York failed, and the backup line did not work immediately.
The control units of the vision of aircraft around Nark Airport were unable to or communicating with them for up to 90 seconds on April 28May 9.
The lines – some of which were old copper wires – failed for the third time on May 11, but the backup system is working and the radar remained on the Internet. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that a fourth interruption on Monday removed radio communications for two seconds, but the radar remained on the Internet.
After the initial interruption, the already reduced control center in Philadelphia lost five to seven units of the shock leave. Leaving that airport is unable to deal with all scheduling flights, which led to hundreds of cancellation and delay.
FAA soon confined the number of flights in Newark to between 24 and 28 expatriates and the same number of departures every hour to ensure that the remaining controllers can deal with them safely. Sometimes when the financial observer employees are particularly meager due to pathological leave, FAA has more traffic.
Officials said the problems affecting Newark Airport are a major example of the reason for the need to repair the entire air traffic control system at the country level.
Transport Minister Sean Dove aMillions of dollars planTo upgrade the nation’s air traffic control system earlier this month. The house initially included $ 12.5 billion inThe comprehensive draft law that RepublicansThey are trying to pass now, but officials have given this amount just a payment of a payment on the total plan.
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