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5 days ago | flipboard.com | Tom Costello |Jay Blackman |David K. Li

The air traffic control mishap early Friday morning added to disruptions in recent days that have intensified concerns about safety at one of the busiest U.S. airports. An air traffic control facility that guides planes at Newark Liberty International Airport had a brief radar outage on Friday …

6 days ago | nbcnews.com | Tom Costello |Jay Blackman |Corky Siemaszko

/ Updated Ten days after an equipment malfunction left about a dozen planes flying blind for 90 seconds in the crowded skies over New Jersey, worried pilots and air traffic controllers are imploring the Federal Aviation Administration to fix the system's aging infrastructure.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Tom Costello |Jay Blackman |Corky Siemaszko

2 hours agoVatican conclave chooses first American-born popeCardinal Robert Francis Prevost , 69, is originally from Chicago and has chosen the papal name Leo XIV. VATICAN CITY — Habemus Papam! The world’s 1.4 billion Catholics have a new leader — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the first American-born pope.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Tom Costello |Jay Blackman |Corky Siemaszko

Want to be an Air Traffic Controller? Check these boxes to get this six-figure job. Whenever there’s an issue in the nation’s airspace, like the current string of delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport, air traffic controllers come under a microscope. A few thousand people are responsible for the daily choreography of tens of thousands of flights in the …

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Tom Costello |Jay Blackman |Corky Siemaszko

The communications breakdown last week that resulted in air traffic controllers losing radar and radio contact with the pilots of planes they were guiding into Newark Liberty International Airport has happened at least two other times since August, a current veteran controller told NBC News on Tuesday.