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Newark Liberty International Airport suffered another air traffic control equipment issue on Sunday.
“There was a telecommunications issue at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace. The FAA briefly slowed aircraft in and out of the airport while we ensured redundancies were working as designed. Operations have returned to normal,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated.
“We will continue to update the public as we work through these issues,” it added.
FAA Statement
This information is preliminary and subject to change.There was a telecommunications issue at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace. The FAA briefly slowed aircraft in and out of the airport…
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) May 11, 2025
Per CNN:
This comes after a 90-second-long radar and radio outage early Friday morning at the same Philadelphia-based TRACON facility handling flights departing from or arriving at Newark.
A similar incident there, during a busy afternoon on April 28, caused five air traffic controllers in the facility to take trauma leave, which resulted in more than a thousand flights canceled.
No flights diverted from the airport during Sunday’s outage, according to the website FlightAware. About 67 flights are delayed and 79 canceled at Newark as of 11 a.m., the flight tracking site notes.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday “it is” safe to fly out of Newark airport, adding that flights will be scaled back at the airport in the interim while the issue is fixed.
While noting that the system is “old” and outdated, Duffy said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” he believes the “glitch” will be fixed soon.
BREAKING: There was a third air traffic control equipment outage this morning at New Jersey’s Newark Airport, causing the FAA to implement a ground stop for all Newark flights for about 45 minutes this morning.
Today’s incident follows 90-second outages on May 9th and April 28. pic.twitter.com/cHgyDqgklz— Shlomo Schorr (@OneJerseySchorr) May 11, 2025
ABC7 New York reports:
On Sunday afternoon, the FAA released updated information, saying an audio issue, not an outage, prompted the ground stop at Newark. The agency said there were popping sounds on an unspecified number of radio frequencies. While air traffic controllers were able to communicate with aircraft, the radio system was not working correctly, prompting the switch to a backup system, the FAA said.
As of 3 p.m., there have been nearly 200 flights delayed and over 80 flights cancelled on Sunday, according to FlightAware.
Sunday’s equipment issue comes after radar screens briefly went black at the airport early Friday morning.
Air traffic controllers on Friday could be heard telling a FedEx plane that their screens went dark and then asked them to tell their company to put pressure on to get the problem fixed. In another transmission, the controller is heard telling a private jet arriving from Cyprus that they just had a brief radar outage and to stay at or above 3,000 feet in case they can’t get in touch during their descent.