Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are calling on the Department of Transportation to produce answers after air traffic control was not in contact with pilots for over a minute at DIA. FOX31's Talya Cunningham has the story.

A portion of the Denver air route traffic control center experienced a 90-second loss of communications late Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

Todd Sheridan Yeary spent 13 years as an air traffic controller in Chicago. He worked on 9/11 and says every day on the job comes with uncertainty.

Controllers handling aircraft headed into Newark Liberty International Airport lost radio frequencies for approximately 2 seconds, said the FAA

A veteran air traffic controller who was alone during the terrifying 90-second blackout at Newark Liberty International Airport refuses to fly out of the travel hub anymore — saying it’s “only a matter of time” before there’s a “fatal crash.

Air traffic control audio captured the moment an American Eagle flight was ordered to abort takeoff after a United Airlines flight taxied on to the same runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York earlier this month.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said air traffic control systems in the U.S. are so antiquated it actually takes longer to fly certain routes today than it did in the 1950s. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy even compared the old equipment to something you’d see on the set of Apollo 13.