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The air traffic control mishap early Friday morning added to disruptions in recent days that have intensified concerns about safety at one of the busiest U.S. airports.

An air traffic control facility that guides planes at Newark Liberty International Airport had a brief radar outage on Friday morning, the latest technological disruption at one of the nation’s busiest airports.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the outage, which affected communications and radar displays at a facility in Philadelphia, occurred just before 4 a.m. and lasted about 90 seconds.

A similar 90-second outage last week, on a Monday afternoon, upended travel at the airport, leaving controllers unable to communicate with pilots and keep planes from crashing into one another. Several controllers working that afternoon were distressed by that episode and took time off, which resulted in several days of low staffing at the facility, causing widespread flight delays and cancellations.

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