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.
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.
A New Jersey man was charged with threatening flight attendants and crew members on a flight from Miami to Newark on Sunday.
