NJ-Newark Airport radio system down during UAL634 emergency landing

[Lynch_Christopher]

I happened to come across this story in the New York Post. The other day when UAL634 had to make an emergency landing at Newark the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey radio system went down for a couple of hours and the emergency responders weren't able to communicate with each other and had to use cellphone and backup frequencies to communicate.

Amid emergency landing at Newark Airport, police radios failed, leaving rescuers in the dark - NYPOST.com

 

[ScanXO]

odd as soon as i heard of the incident about 20 min into it I put on the trunk system and heard all comms related to the post landing, like most edacs type systems they have a 'failsafe' freq simplex freq the radios revert to ; plus they were suppose to have NJ Utacs, and 800 tac simplex/repeater freq to comunicate-

 

[Lynch_Christopher]

The failsafe frequencies must have been the backup frequencies that they were talking about in the article. Its a good thing that they have the failsafe option in case the system goes down. Hopefully they solve the problem and this doesn't happen again in the future.