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The reason for the current Newark Airport crisis [1]
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Date: 2025-05-06
Why isn’t anyone connecting the firing of the FAA repair and technical staff back in February with equipment failures in Newark and Philadelphia?
The firings at the FAA do not include air traffic controllers, but did appear to include engineers and technicians.
A spokesperson for the union said no probationary technicians had been fired, citing about 133 job cuts so far.
The positions terminated included maintenance mechanics, aeronautical information specialists, environmental protection specialists, aviation safety assistants and management administration personnel, but did not include airway transportation systems specialists who maintain and certify air traffic control equipment
Former FAA air traffic controller Dylan Sullivan claimed on social media that agency personnel who were terminated “maintain every piece of equipment that keeps flying safe, from the radars to the ILS, to ATC automation”.
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