Equipment issues grind air traffic to a halt in Newark and Atlanta

May 11 (UPI) -- Operations are returning to mean aft a unrelated instrumentality issues prompted crushed stops astatine Newark Liberty and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airports Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced.

"Technicians are moving to code the problem," the FAA said of the Newark issue.

"The FAA concisely slowed craft successful and retired of the airdrome portion we ensured redundancies were moving arsenic designed," the bureau said connected X. "Operations person returned to normal."

As of Sunday afternoon, astatine slightest 150 flights to and from Newark were delayed and 80 were canceled. The FAA issued the crushed halt Sunday greeting and aboriginal downgraded the directive to a slowdown.

Separately, a "runway instrumentality issue" caused hundreds of flights successful Atlanta to beryllium delayed by a crushed stop, and the a two-hour crushed delay, which a Delta Airlines spokesperson told reporters was delayed an outage astatine the airdrome and weather.

Ongoing Newark issues

The Mother's Day aerial postulation snarl astatine Newark appeared to originate with a communications strategy successful Philadelphia wherever flights successful and retired of Newark are directed.

It's the 2nd outage of the TRACON strategy little than 2 weeks. On April 28th, the strategy malfunctioned which created major aerial postulation delays successful Newark.

During past month's TRACON outage, aerial postulation controllers mislaid interaction with planes traveling to and from Newark, rendering the controllers incapable to see, hear, oregon speech to the pilots.

Sunday's crushed halt came portion Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced plans to trim the postulation load astatine Newark by installing a caller communications enactment betwixt the engaged New Jersey airdrome and the Philadelphia TRACON system.

"And if we don't really execute the ngo that we're announcing today, you volition spot Newark's -- not conscionable successful Newark -- you'll spot Newarks successful different parts of the country," Duffy said during an interview connected NBC News' Meet the Press.

Duffy stressed connected Sunday that it is inactive harmless to alert successful the United States and stressed that erstwhile incidents specified arsenic the 1 that happened successful Newark Sunday bash happen, aerial postulation controllers and pilots person backup systems and procedures successful spot to guarantee the information of formation crews and passengers.

"It is not ideal, by immoderate stretch, but they -- they bash instrumentality those procedures, and they enactment distant from each other, and they -- and we vacate the airspace," Duffy added.

Duffy said the caller communications enactment is scheduled to beryllium completed by the extremity of the summer.