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Disaster narrowly avoided at airport as air traffic control goes dark

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Radar screens at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport went dark early Friday morning .

Power outage took place at 3:55am ET, when air traffic was luckily very light.

It's the second radar blackout in two weeks at Newark Airport .

Air traffic controllers reportedly told a FedEx cargo plane their radars screens were offline.

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