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WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

It began with this.

Just got told that the approach lost all the radars, three of the four radar screens left black.

April 28th, more than a dozen planes in the sky above Newark Airport in New Jersey.

According to reports, air traffic controllers at the Philadelphia Terminal Radar

Approach Control suddenly lost their radar and their radios.

They could no longer see the planes, and the pilots could no longer hear the controllers.

I guess this is a serious issue because I have one more arrival,

and now I have nobody else coming inbound.

Radar and radio were down for a total of 90 seconds.

Might not seem very long, but just count it out.

One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, all the way to 90.

And then you feel the weight of time that potentially dozens of planes were in the sky above New Jersey invisible to air traffic control.

Thankfully, there were no crashes or disasters, but the stress of potential catastrophe was so great,

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