The Department of Transportation’s Inspector General’s Office will conduct an audit starting next month concerning the move of the Newark Air Traffic control to Philadelphia in the aftermath of multiple blackouts taking place this year, the DOT announced on Monday.

The DOT explained that the background to the audit is that last July the Federal Aviation Administration transferred Terminal Radar Approach Control responsibilities for the airspace surrounding the Newark International Airport from the New York TRACON (N90) to the Philadelphia Air Traffic Control Tower with the intention of addressing chronic understaffing at N90.

But in April this year air traffic controllers overseeing Newark’s airspace experienced an approximately 90-second blackout of radar and radio contact with air traffic due to a burnt copper wire, and the following month an additional 90-second outage took place due to failures of both primary and redundant communication infrastructure.

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