Third equipment was confirmed at the Newark Airport by FAA

A third equipment was reported on Sunday morning, flights were affected in Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).

The ground stopped in place on Sunday morning for 45 minutes, after radar screens became shortly a dark and local TV station ABC 7 mentioned.

“There was a problem in the field of telecommunications in the Philadelphia Triacon region, which directs aircraft inside and outside the airspace of the international airport in Newark Liberty,” the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed in a statement to Fox Business.

The statement said: “The Federal Aviation Administration was briefly slowing the plane inside and outside the airport, while we were confirming that the repetition was designed as it was designed. The operations returned to normal.” No additional details were provided.

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Aviation tracking site, Flightaware says it was there 70 Aviation cancellation In EWR in the last 24 hours.

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On Saturday, Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, conducted a pre -registered interview with the “CBS News”, as he maintained his position that the flight was safe and that the backup procedures are present for the interruption of equipment.

“It is the safest way to largely travel,” Kirby said. “I understand how people feel sympathetic to that, but I know that it is safe because I spent my entire career. I know all people in flying, whether they work on United Airlines, other airlines, and Foua. Safety is the number one, and it is in the basic DNA for all.”

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The Federal Aviation Administration will hold a “meeting to reduce scheduling” on Wednesday morning on flights at EWR, although both Transport Minister Sean Duffy and Kirby said that EWR flights had already been expanded.

“I hate the delay, I hate cancellation and I hate families who come with young children sitting there for four hours,” Duffy said in “Meet The Press” on Sunday.

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“I sometimes did it. It is difficult. But I want you to reach the place where you travel, and if this means Slow flights to Newark, We slow them down to make sure we can do this safely. ”