U.S. aviation safety regulators are investigating a communications outage affecting flights approaching Denver International Airport earlier this week, the latest in a series of glitches that have put a spotlight on the nation’s aging air traffic control system.
Part of the air route traffic control center handling Denver flights lost communications for about 90 seconds on Monday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Both transmitters that cover a segment of airspace there went down, and controllers used another frequency to communicate with pilots.
Aircraft remained at a safe distance from one another