Travel was interrupted for thousands of travelers Monday when a ground stop was issued for Newark, Teterboro and Philadelphia International airports. Later, JFK and La Guardia were added the list.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued the ground stop for Newark around 10 a.m. Eastern, and it remains active. The New York ground stops followed at around 1 p.m.
The FAA website lists the cause for each as an “equipment outage.” An FAA spokesperson specified to CBS Philadelphia that there were “issues with some frequencies at Philadelphia TRACON,” an air traffic control facility.
FAA administrator Brian Bedford told reporters that the primary circuit into that air traffic control facility, which carries in and out data, failed Monday morning. Then the agency discovered that the backup fiber optic line had been severed somewhere between New Brunswick and Newark, New Jersey.
https://www.koat.com/article/faa-ground-stop-newark-philadelphia-jfk-lga/73824525
FAA Administration Bryan Bedford later explained that an older Verizon circuit shared by the airports failed,
and when it went to flip into backup mode,
crews discovered a break in that backup fiber cable somewhere between Newark and New Brunswick.
That fiber cable would take about 13 hours to repair, Bedford said.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/newark-airport-ground-stop-equipment-issues/6550060/
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