Aviation: Again failure of US airport – briefly no contact with pilots

In the United States, there was another system failure at an airport where contact with pilots was lost. This time it happened at the Denver International Airport, as several media reported. Pilots who flew the airport on Monday were therefore unable to communicate with the pilots for about two minutes due to radio transmitters. This was explained by a leading employee of the U.S. Air Travel Authority FAA in front of a congress committee, reported the broadcaster NPR.

Just a week ago there was a similar breakdown at Newark Airport not far from the metropolis of New York. The air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft for about 90 seconds. There had already been a similar blackout at the airport.

According to the FAA employee, one of the radio frequencies of the air traffic controllers failed in Denver. The air traffic controllers divided into a reserve frequency that also failed for about two minutes, the broadcaster NPR quoted from the session. After that, the connection was stable again. The broadcaster Fox Business reported that around 20 pilots had lost contact at short notice. The aircraft could all have been kept at a distance, the broadcaster CNN quoted the aviation authority.

Transport Minister Sean Duffy had recently announced that the outdated flight safety system in the United States would be extensively modernized. Sometimes it is still being worked with technology from the 1970s. The modernization should be completed in three or four years.

After a serious accident in the collision of a helicopter with a passenger machine in the capital Washington in January, the security of air traffic in the USA is in public focus. At that time, 67 people died.