WASHINGTON \u2014 A circuit failure caused a ground stop Monday at all three major New York-area airports, snarling air travel across the US, officials said.<\/p>\n
The electrical issue at a \u201csingle point of failure\u201d led to loss of radio and radar equipment at John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, and Newark Liberty International Airport, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford confirmed.<\/p>\n
Making matters worse, officials discovered that a newly built fiberoptic backup system had been damaged by construction work.<\/p>\n
Planes taxi in front of an air traffic control tower at Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. AP<\/p>\n
A United Airlines jetliner is parked away from the terminals at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday, May 4, 2026. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, that circuit failed today,\u201d Bedford said. \u201cAnd when it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fiber had a break.\u201d<\/p>\n
The FAA boss said he anticipated that flights would resume sometime after 1:30 p.m. ET, but added that it would take at least 13 more hours to fix the backup system.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear when the fiber-optic backup was severed.<\/p>\n
An aerial view shows a terminal building, planes and tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on June 6, 2026. Gado via Getty Images<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 A circuit failure caused a ground stop Monday at all three major New York-area airports, snarling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,1184,1186,1087,57,9,11,10,1086,344,58],"class_list":["post-352652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-business","tag-faa","tag-jfk-airport","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-newark-airport","tag-power-outage","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}