FAA Ground-Stops Every Major New York Airport Over "Equipment Outage" At The Same Facility That Broke Newark Last Year

FAA Ground-Stops Every Major New York Airport Over "Equipment Outage" At The Same Facility That Broke Newark Last Year The FAA has issued ground-stop orders to arrivals into every major New York-area airport: JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark. Teterboro, Westchester, and Philadelphia are in the same pile. Official reason: equipment outage. What happened The first restrictions hit Newark, Teterboro, and Philadelphia after problems with radio frequencies at Philadelphia TRACON, the terminal radar facility that handles arrivals and departures in that airspace. The FAA later added JFK, LaGuardia, and Westchester. The agency has not publicly...