Denver’s air traffic drivers lost communications for 90 seconds on Monday, causing chaos in the skies over the mass travel center.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the interruption at the Denver International Airport that cut communications with incoming flights.
It is the last incident in a series of air traffic control blackouts that has accumulated US airspace in recent weeks, including multiple interruptions at Newark International Airport.
‘Part of the Denver air route traffic control center (ARTCC) experienced a loss of communications for approximately 90 seconds around 1:50 pm local time on Monday, May 12, when both transmitters that cover a airspace segment fell,’ ‘the agency said.
‘The controllers used another frequency to transmit instructions to the pilots. The aircraft remained safely separated and there were no impacts on operations.
Up to 20 pilots flying to the busy airport they could not talk to air traffic controlle during the interruption, Denver7 reported.
The sources told him at the exit that a controller was able to contact a pilot using a guard line, which is used when a pilot is in danger, and that pilot could tell the other aircraft to change the frequencies.
According to the report, four frequencies of the two main towers at the Air Traffic Control Center on Longmont were already out of service.
Denver’s air traffic drivers lost communications for 90 seconds on Monday, causing chaos in the heavens on the airport (in the photo)
Up to 20 pilots flying to the busy airport could not speak with air traffic controllers during the interruption (in the photo: inside a control tower at Denver airport)
Air traffic controllers were using a fifth backup frequency to talk to the pilots, which then came out.
‘The greatest risk is that you have airplanes with which you are not talking. And then, therefore, the pilots have to try to solve it themselves, ‘said Denver’s air traffic controller, David Riley, to the news station. ‘He says the team is aging.
‘It is one thing to lose the notion of a plane because you cannot communicate with them, but to lose the notion of all the planes with which it had communication.
«And to my understanding, in this situation, they still had a radar coverage, but that is like seeing a car accident and not being able to do anything about it.»
On Friday, air traffic controllers of the radar approach installation of philadelphia terminal (tracon), which are responsible for guiding airplanes in the skies, momentarily lost the telecommunications with airplanes that travel to and from Newark.
In an audio recording, you can listen to a controller telling a Fedex plane that its radar screen has darkened, imploring the pilot to press its airline to solve the ongoing technological problems.
In another, the tower instructs a private plane that is approaching to remain in or more than 3,000 feet in case the communication is lost again.
Friday’s incident occurred a few days after a similar blackout of 30 seconds of radar and radio, which was probably felt as an eternity for pilots and controllers, on April 28.
Denver’s interruption is the last incident in a series of air traffic control blackouts, including multiple at Newark New Jersey airport (in the photo) in recent weeks
Newark (in the photo in July) has experienced interruptions during the last two weeks, which officials blamed the problems and construction of air traffic controller personnel
In a recording of that day, you can listen to a pilot asking: «He approaches, are you there?» On five separate occasions and receiving only dead air in response.
In the tower, it must have been equally tense. In fact, multiple air traffic controllers have now taken a ’45 -day trauma license’ to deal with scare.
The airplanes at Austin airport, Texas, were delayed up to an hour and a half on Sunday due to the «I did not put chronic» in the FAA air traffic control tower, Kut News reported.
Separate, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International issued a land stop on Mother’s Day due to the team’s failure.
The incidents are the last in a long line of disasters that the Trump administration blames the ‘outdated’ FAA systems.
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