An air traffic control radio outage has grounded all inbound flights to Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey.
Incoming flights from across the U.S. and Canada will be slowed down, with average delays of as long as 2.5 hours and some are nearly four hours. Departing flights did not appear to be impacted.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the outage is due to an equipment issue, causing air traffic controller to lose their radio frequencies.
The flight chaos comes as the busy Labor Day travel weekend is getting underway, and the Newark airport is expecting more than three million passengers over the holiday.
This is a developing story… More updates to come.Â
Incoming flights from across the U.S. and Canada will be slowed down, with average delays of about and some as long as 2.5 hours and some as long as nearly 4 hours
