FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Six out of 10 new air traffic controllers at Miami Center, a major radar complex that guides planes in and out of South Florida, do not receive adequate training _ and that jeopardizes safety, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said on Monday.

To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Steve Wallace of NATCA Miami Center, +1-954-401-1348 MIAMI, Jan.

By Ina Paiva Cordle, The Miami Herald Dec. 5--An underwater telecommunications cable failure at an air traffic control facility in San Juan disrupted the computer systems at the controllers' center in Miami for 55 minutes on Monday, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.