The breakdown that resulted in air traffic controllers losing communications with the pilots of planes they were guiding into Newark International Airport has happened at least two other times since August,

After experiencing a total radar and radio blackout, air traffic controllers are speaking out about what they believe is a dangerous setup at one of America's busiest airports.

Recent chaos at Newark airport underscores just how tough it is to solve the nationwide shortage of air-traffic controllers that has been decades in the making. A brief outage during which controllers lost contact with flights in and out of the nation’s 12th busiest airport last week preceded widespread delays and cancellations that began this past weekend.