Investigators from the NTSB arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday after a near catastrophe over the weekend.
With recent travel woes out of Newark airport, flyers can take some advice from a man who has flown out of the New Jersey facility more than 8,000 times.
The brief outage happened at 3:55 a.m.
The facility where controllers work the airspace around Newark airport is located in Philadelphia and was already short air traffic controllers.
Several issues have led to delays and cancellations for about a week, and those disruptions were happening again Monday morning.
A man attempting to go through airport security was discovered to have been hiding a living turtle in his pants as he tried to sneak it onto the plane, authorities said.
