A veteran air traffic controller has opened up in stunning detail about the Trump-era safety crisis currently roiling the U.S. travel industry. Jonathan Stewart outlined in an on-the-record interview a recent close call at Newark-Liberty International Airport, and outlined the dangers of staffing shortages bedeviling the FAA.

Radar and communications blackout underscore the urgent need for modern technology and more flight controllers to keep the national airspace safe.

I don’t want to be responsible for killing 400 people,” air traffic controller Jonathan Stewart said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal

A veteran New Jersey air traffic controller has revealed he was forced to scribble handwritten flight details in a notebook amid fears his radar equipment would go dark as he was trying to avoid a recent nose-to-nose midair collision.