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.”
The 39-year-old worker, who authored an anonymous essay to The Times, said she is too traumatized to work – now out on stress-related leave and undergoing psychological evaluation – after the sudden outage knocked out crucial communications at America’s second business airport around 4 a.m. on May 9.
The power failure followed an equally-long one on April 28 and another in November.
“Do I think it’s safe to fly from or to the airport?” the woman, who has worked as an air traffic controller for 16 years, queried…