The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it is taking immediate steps to address ongoing woes that have disrupted hundreds of flights at Newark Liberty International Airport since April 28.The FAA said it is increasing air traffic controller staffing and adding three new,

An outage briefly left air traffic controllers “unable to see, hear or talk to” planes last week, a union spokesperson said.

On April 28 at about 1:27 p.m. local time, the air traffic controllers monitoring the skies above New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport came face to face with their worst-case scenario: With radar and radio contact suddenly cut,

Silence. That’s the last thing an airline pilot wants to hear from air traffic control as they approach a major international airport straddling the country’s most populated city.