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Staff shortages and equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport have raised safety concerns in recent weeks.
The Trump administration announced an emergency task force of executives from Verizon, L3Harris and the FAA to fix the communication issues at Newark airport.
Sunday's incident marks the fourth time in the past two weeks that technical problems have disrupted air traffic at Newark.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says a new software update prevented a third radar outage over the last two weeks at New Jersey's busy Newark airport when a telecommunications line failed again over the weekend.
At times Monday evening, as few as three air traffic controllers per hour were lined up to monitor via radar the planes flying into and out of the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.