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Security fears at Newark Airport
This series of stories examines the security deficiencies at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the three airports breached by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. More than two years after Sept. 11, thousands of bags each day are not being scanned for explosives and security checkpoints remain seriously understaffed, the newspaper found. Subsequent stories revealed equipment problems, security lapses and significant employee absences by security personnel.
Tags: airport security; Newark Liberty International Airport; Sept. 11; TSA; Transportation Security Administration
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Slam and Jam
The Atlantic Monthly reports on the nation's air-traffic-control system. "For all the reports of equipment failures and "close calls" and controller burnout, the nation's air-traffic control system is in fact far less precarious, in terms of safety, than people imagine it to be. The real threat to the system's integrity has as yet received little attention.... Renegade slowdowns deliver a clear threat within the agency, yet a threat so technical that it remains invisible to the outside world." The story finds that "many of the public concerns about air-traffic control -- that the equipment is dangerously old, that safety is compromised, that poorly monitored aircraft threaten to collide in midair -- are largely unwarranted."
Tags: Newark International Airport; LaGuardia; JFK; aviation; Lufthansa; United Airlines; Continental; hubs; FAA; unions
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Flying Blind
The Star Ledger does an investigative story on how air traffic control problems at Newark International Airport lead to chaos in the skies. The Star Ledger found that FAA is having trouble keeping the air traffic control facilities fully staffed and has to deal with equipment that has exceeded its expected operational life.
Tags: FAA; Newark airport; air traffic control; Federal aviation administration; flight controller