Equipment issues grind air traffic to a halt in Newark and Atlanta

Operations are returning to normal after a unrelated equipment issues prompted ground stops at Newark Liberty and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airports Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced.

"Technicians are working to address the problem," the FAA said of the Newark issue.

"The FAA briefly slowed aircraft in and out of the airport while we ensured redundancies were working as designed," the agency said on X. "Operations have returned to normal."

As of Sunday afternoon, at least 150 flights to and from Newark were delayed and 80 were canceled. The FAA issued the ground stop Sunday morning and later downgraded the directive to a slowdown.

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