Denver International Airport experienced a brief communications outage on May 12, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Friday. The incident came within weeks of a similar service disruption at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
The air traffic control center in Denver, one of the busiest airports in the world, “experienced a loss of communications for approximately 90 seconds around 1:50 p.m. local time on Monday, May 12, when both transmitters that cover a segment of airspace went down,” the FAA told The Epoch Times.
The outage did not affect operations, said the FAA, noting that “controllers used another frequency to relay instructions to pilots” and that “aircraft remained safely separated.”…