New audio reveals tense moments after Newark Airport air traffic controllers lost contact: ‘Are you there?’
New audio captured the tense moment air traffic controllers lost all contact with planes approaching New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport — leaving one pilot asking, “Approach, are you there?”
The United Airlines pilot, who was en route from New Orleans, had radioed the controllers at least five times as he sought clearance to land at the busy airport — but was met with roughly 30 seconds of silence, according to the clip recorded by
LiveATC.net.
“United 1951, how do you hear me?” the controller could finally be heard asking.
The pilot responded, “I got you loud and clear, United 1951.”
In another stressful moment, a controller tells a pilot flying to Newark from Charleston, South Carolina, that the “radar contact lost
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