Complete comms failure last night

NovemberEcho said:
Around 740pm last night we had a complete comms failure (frequencies and landlines). Around 10 planes in the airspace and no way to reach them. Couldn’t even transmit on guard. A FedEx wound up overflying Manhattan at 3,000 and through the LGA final.

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How long were they down?
 
NovemberEcho said:
Around 740pm last night we had a complete comms failure (frequencies and landlines). Around 10 planes in the airspace and no way to reach them. Couldn’t even transmit on guard. A FedEx wound up overflying Manhattan at 3,000 and through the LGA final.

Remember folks, the FAA cares about safety.
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Christ.
 
That is flippin’ nuts.

What dynamic exists in the organization that someone responsible for the New York/Jersey facility has not been shoved through a small hole and replaced? If ATO can’t fix the equipment they should at least try fixing the officers.
 
NovemberEcho said:
Depends on the time but yes I did work that yesterday. Which were you?
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UA240 at about 0840. We were the ones catching up to the plane in front of us and if it was you, you slowed us to final speed way out. FO wasn’t catching what you were laying down with the speed reductions before that.
 
I was inbound from PUJ when it happened. Went to IAD and timed out. Headed to my DH and see another equipment outage notam? Did it happen again this morning or still reeling from it?
 
Ian_J said:
UA240 at about 0840. We were the ones catching up to the plane in front of us and if it was you, you slowed us to final speed way out. FO wasn’t catching what you were laying down with the speed reductions before that.
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I just listened nah that wasn’t me.
 
sp238882 said:
I was inbound from PUJ when it happened. Went to IAD and timed out. Headed to my DH and see another equipment outage notam? Did it happen again this morning or still reeling from it?
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We haven’t lost freq’s but the comm system is doing the same constant glitching it did yesterday before they went out. Has been doing it all morning. Running big in trails to limit the planes on freq at any one time and whenever possible giving direct a fix on an approach asap so if it goes out no one is on a random vector. Doesn’t help we only had 3 people this morning
 
Was a was an ATA at LA Tracon, back in the mid-80's for pete's sake, I remember we had a portable battery powered comm they would test out every so often. Seems like things have gone downhill since 85.....
 
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