{"id":361067,"date":"2026-03-23T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361067\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:44:07","slug":"evacuation-at-newark-airport-as-flights-grounded-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361067\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation at Newark Airport as flights grounded | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A control tower at a major airport serving New York City was evacuated after reports of smoke.<\/p>\n

The evacuation took place at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and a ground stop put in place after a burning smell from an elevator.<\/p>\n

Air traffic was paused at Newark at around 7.30am local time, the Federal Aviation<\/a> Administration (FAA) confirmed.<\/p>\n

“Arrivals and departures \u200care temporarily paused at Newark Liberty International Airport in \u200bNew Jersey after air traffic controllers evacuated the tower because of a burning \u200bsmell coming from an elevator,” \u2060the FAA said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Air traffic controllers later returned to the tower and the ground stop was lifted.<\/p>\n

Newark Airport is one of three aviation hubs serving New York City, and the second-busiest of the trio behind John F. Kennedy International.<\/p>\n

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Earlier on Monday, an Air Canada plane crashed<\/a> into a fire engine overnight at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing the pilot and co-pilot.<\/p>\n

A total of 41 people from the plane were taken to hospital, some with serious injuries, and 32 were subsequently released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A control tower at a major airport serving New York City was evacuated after reports of smoke. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-361067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}