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Pete Muntean

Pete Muntean

May 7, 2025

2:04
Can you take us further into that incident and tell our listeners in a little more detail what was going on?
2:11
We're getting the best picture yet now.
2:15
Last night I just talked to a controller who was in that facility at the time of the systems meltdown where they lost not only radar so they can't see where the planes are, But they also lost radio, meaning that they cannot communicate with planes via voice.
2:33
So operating blind and deaf there in the Newark approach control facility, which is actually in Philadelphia.
2:40
And this controller described it to me as the worst possible thing that could happen to a controller.
2:48
The most dangerous situation is the direct quote.
2:50
He says that they were without those systems for about 90 seconds.

10 MINS LATER

12:45
So talk about the politics of this.

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