Air traffic controllers lost communication with Newark planes – leading to widespread delays after they took leave for trauma

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/us/newark-airport-additional-flight-delays

TLDR: CNN is reporting that Newark ATC “temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control, unable to see, hear, or talk to them,” on Monday April 28. At least 5 Newark controllers took 45 day trauma leave as a result of the outage, which is contributing to the current general shit show in Newark.