Flight disruptions ease at Newark, Philadelphia airports following equipment outage – CNBC

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Flight delays continued Tuesday but were far fewer compared with Monday, when an FAA flight data system failed and a damaged cable severed a backup system. Flight disruptions eased on Tuesday, a day after a fiber cable break cut air traffic controllers off from key radio and radar feeds, snarling air travel in the Philadelphia and New York area and stranding thousands of travelers. As of 7:10 a.m. ET, about 60 flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey were canceled, about 5% of the day's schedule, down from more than 600 a day before, according to FlightAware.

At Philadelphia International Airport, about 30 flights, around 2% of the schedule, were canceled. The disruptions were far fewer than on Monday, when officials said a NJ Transit construction crew in central New Jersey accidentally cut a Verizon fiber-optic line needed for a backup system at an air traffic control facility that guides planes to nearby airports. The Federal Aviation Administration said the problem was discovered after the main system failed and switched to the damaged backup system. More than 100