Radar screens went down again at New Jersey’s troubled Newark Liberty International Airport early Friday — just two weeks after another outage wreaked havoc with mass cancellations.
The brief outage unfolded just before 4 a.m., WABC reported.
Audio transmissions captured air traffic controllers alerting at least two incoming planes that the radar screens had gone dark.
In one recording, a controller could be heard telling a private jet en route from Cyprus that it should stay above 3,000 feet in case they lost touch during the descent.
Another controller was also reportedly overheard telling a FedEx pilot about the blackout issue.
The Post reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration but didn’t immediately hear back.
It comes as the Garden State airport continues to be plagued by flight delays and cancellations following the earlier saga that saw air traffic controllers lose communications with planes in the sky for at least 30 seconds on April 28.
The FAA was quick to blame that meltdown on the physical failure of a telecommunications line, as well as a shortage of air traffic controllers at the airport and runway construction.
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