✈️ Flight Delays Blamed On Ancient Tech
Published by OOPSONLINE.IN · Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 1 min read · · Updated
🚀 OOPS SAYS
Modernizing our outdated air traffic control systems is a critical priority to ensure the safety and reliability of the thousands of flights carrying passengers every day.
What actually happened
Communications failures that snarled U.S. air traffic Monday highlight the aging systems controllers rely on to guide roughly 45,000 flights a day. Congress handed the Federal Aviation Administration $12.5 billion last year to overhaul technology after the deadliest American plane crash in more than two decades happened in January. The same Philadelphia facility that lost its primary and backup data lines Monday also experienced a series of brief radar outages last spring that disrupted flights at Newark Airport. Similar communications outages in Minneapolis and Dallas have interfered with fli
Key points
- Communications failures that snarled U.
- air traffic Monday highlight the aging systems controllers rely on to guide roughly 45,000 flights a day.
- Congress handed the Federal Aviation Administration $12.
- 5 billion last year to overhaul technology after the deadliest American plane crash in more than two decades happened in January.
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