Flights resuming after equipment outage disrupts Northeast air travel: Duffy
- A technical failure at an FAA air traffic control facility in Philadelphia disrupted flights across the Northeast on Monday, affecting major airports including Newark, Philadelphia, JFK and LaGuardia.
- The outage began when a primary communications circuit failed, while the backup fiber-optic line had also been accidentally severed during construction work in New Jersey.
- The FAA temporarily halted or restricted flights and diverted some aircraft, resulting in hundreds of cancellations and widespread delays across the Northeast and other parts of the country.
- By Monday evening, technicians had repaired the damaged communications lines and flights were resuming, although officials warned that significant delays could continue through the evening and potentially affect Tuesday operations.
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New York airport operations resume after disruptions across U.S. Northeast due to technical problems
Flights were taking off and landing at New York City-area airports Tuesday with some delays and cancellations, after hours of disruptions resulting from damaged communications lines at a key air traffic control facility in Philadelphia that were later repaired.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in X that around 19H00 GMT flights were being resumed at LaGuardia airport and in Philadelphia, while flights to Newark and JFK airports were suspended. "An Amtrak construction crew accidentally cut off a fiber optic line in New Jersey, causing a fall in the telecommunications service and forcing FAA to stop flights in the northeast," said Duffy. Amtrak is the United States passenger train company.
Telecom problem stops thousands of flights
WASHINGTON — A failed telecommunications circuit and a severed fiber-optic cable snarled thousands of flights across the U.S. on Monday and forced a halt to incoming flights at major airports in New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
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