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I brought up the Newark problem in this forum years before the end of the Buttigieg era. Last summer, you know, (if you look at a calendar was during the last administration), they realized they couldn't adequately staff the place so they turned over the TRACON (terminal radar approach control facility) responsibilities for Newark over to the Philadelphia staff. They didn't install the infrastructure necessary to handle the high speed data transfer, so we got what we got last week when screens went blank. Absolutely nothing to do with the new Sect., nor was the midair in DCA. You would have to be some new level of stupid to blame a Sect of Trans who had been on position a few months for these systemic problems. But at least we changed "Notice to Airmen" announcements, required to be read prior to every flight, to "Notice to Air Missions," so we could get "men" out of the vernacular. Of course the fact that the entire system crashed during Buttigieg's watch, resulting in a nationwide ground stop for a couple hours wasn't as important as getting rid of "men" in the title.

You continue to post this thing, and yet you never offer history or context. I posted about the Newark thing years ago, mentioning adjusting schedules because of manning shortages there. This was barely a year into the Biden Admin. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg did nothing to solve it, nor anything else to rectify the huge problems of the FAA. Despised by the industry, the mayor of Gary served out his term and this is what he left us. The funny part, though not funny in the industry, is that every time you post this stuff you are pointing the finger at our Biden Admin Sect of Transportation, and you don't seem to realize that.

Not so fast. Th gear is put into very large aluminum cargo containers. The containers are loaded and locked down. It was, more than likely, not a bunch of bags. It was one large cargo container on a 767. Given the city pairs, I'm guessing it was a United charter. The airplane left Boston, probably empty, without the normal baggage check on departure, and went to Newark to get integrated into the system.