Ground stops and delays wreaked havoc on over half a dozen airports in the Northeast for most of Monday, including all three major New York-area airports, due to a pair of equipment failures, officials said.
A circuit failure at Philadelphia’s Terminal Radar Approach Control led to loss of radio and radar equipment at John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, and Newark Liberty International Airport, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford confirmed.
The Philadelphia, Teterboro, and Westchester County airports were also impacted by the circuit failure, the FAA added.
Planes taxi in front of an air traffic control tower at Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.AP
The outage, which first impacted flights beginning at 10 a.m., resulted in more than 1,000 flights being delayed or canceled in one of the busiest regions in the US already troubled by aging infrastructure.
The incident also came as 130 world leaders and dozens of ministers were arriving in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting.
