FAA halts flights to Newark and Philadelphia because of equipment issue

An equipment outage on Monday delayed hundreds of flights bound for Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia and forced close to 70 planes to divert to other airports. As of 1 p.m. ET, the disruptions were spreading to New York City, where flights into LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport were also halted by the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA earlier halted flights into Newark Liberty International Airport, United Airlines ' busiest international hub, as well as Philadelphia International Airport and New Jersey's Teterboro Airport "due to issues with some frequencies at Philadelphia TRACON." That Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON, facility, guides planes in and out of Newark and Philadelphia.