The small plane that crashed into a neighborhood in San Diego, California, Thursday, killing an as yet unknown number aboard, appears to have begun its doomed journey in New Jersey, officials and flight tracking data say.

Flights at the New Jersey airport have been canceled and delayed in recent weeks amid communications problems plaguing air traffic control systems and ongoing construction.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered a reduction of traffic at the airport for the “next several weeks,” insisting that it’s safe to fly out of New Jersey’s busiest airport, despite it using an “old” system, which he previously described as being run on “copper wire and floppy disks.”

Trains are idle, the airport is hobbled and large holes have opened on a major highway. The state’s residents have time to reflect, and get mad.

New Jersey’s beloved musical bard Bruce Springsteen promised Wendy in his breakthrough hit “Born to Run" that some day “we’re gonna get to that place where we really wanna go, and we’ll walk in the sun.

The flight restrictions that have been in place at New Jersey's largest airport ever since air traffic controllers first lost their radar and radios briefly last month will remain in place into June,

Nearly 5.5 million travelers are expected to use the Port of Authority of New York & New Jersey’s airports and vehicular crossings during the

Air traffic controllers handling flights for Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another troubling communications outage on Monday. It is the region's fourth reported air traffic control outage in the last few weeks,