Flight Data Controllers are an often-unseen but integral part of air traffic control, responsible for managing and disseminating a wide array of critical flight information to support radar operations ...

Despite a transponder failure, air traffic control (ATC) can still provide services by reverting to primary radar techniques, which detect aircraft via "skin paint" without relying on transponder ...

For what seemed like an eternity, the radar screens went dark and all radio contact was lost to controllers handling air traffic heading in and out Newark Liberty International Airport last week.

An experienced air traffic controller retired just days after his radar failed as planes flew into New York airspace, according to The New York Times. The fault meant the Philadelphia-based Newark ...

A week after air traffic controllers lost all radar and radio communications with aircraft flying in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport, federal officials announced steps to fix the ...

Years before recent communications blackouts led to widespread chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport, air traffic controllers and pilots around the country repeatedly reported equipment ...

Radar systems at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey stopped working for about 90 seconds early Friday morning, the second major outage in a matter of days at an airport struggling with ...

A technical outage in Philadelphia last week terrified air traffic controllers and stranded passengers. As the summer travel season looms, the F.A.A. is racing to address the problems. A technical ...

Raytheon is developing new radar software that could allow future U.S. Navy warships to ...