{"id":406597,"date":"2026-09-21T22:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406597\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T22:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:08:20","slug":"six-jacksonville-flights-canceled-after-faa-equipment-outage-grounds-northeast-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406597\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Jacksonville flights canceled after FAA equipment outage grounds Northeast airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\"  loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/VP3E3HMEBBE7DKJESQ7KVAEPCM.jpg\"\/>Jacksonville International Airport (WJXT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Six Jacksonville flights have been canceled after an FAA equipment outage prompted ground stops at five major airports in the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">According to FlightAware, more than 4,400 flights have been delayed and nearly 640 have been canceled within, into, or out of the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">All six canceled Jacksonville flights are tied to either Newark or Philadelphia \u2014 two airports at the center of the disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The FAA says a fiber cable was accidentally cut at a construction site in New Jersey. That cut knocked out a tower in Philadelphia responsible for radar approach and air traffic control operations, triggering a cascade of ground stops across the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The FAA ordered ground stops at five Northeast airports:<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia International Airport<\/p>\n<p>Newark Liberty International Airport<\/p>\n<p>Teterboro Airport<\/p>\n<p>LaGuardia Airport<\/p>\n<p>John F. Kennedy International Airport<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Philadelphia International Airport is among the hardest hit. Delays there are averaging three and a half hours, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville International Airport (WJXT) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Six Jacksonville flights have been canceled after an FAA equipment outage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-406597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}