An influence outage brought on by an remoted hearth has disrupted flights at one of many busiest airports on the planet.
A terminal at New York Metropolis’s John F Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) was closed on Friday as a consequence of {an electrical} outage that disrupted inbound and outbound flights at one of many world’s busiest airports.
The outage started after {an electrical} panel failed and triggered a small, remoted hearth that was instantly extinguished in a single day in Terminal 1, the airport mentioned. The terminal, one among 5 on the airport, serves a number of worldwide carriers, together with Air France and Lufthansa.
The outage pressured a JFK-bound Air New Zealand airplane to return to Auckland about eight hours into its journey.
Air New Zealand mentioned “diverting to a different US port would have meant the plane would stay on the bottom for a number of days, impacting plenty of different scheduled providers and prospects.” The airline mentioned all passengers on the flight have been accommodated on flights leaving Auckland.
The Federal Aviation Administration declined to remark in regards to the disruptions to air journey.
As of 1:30pm (18:30 GMT) on Friday, JFK’s web site confirmed 120 inbound and outbound flights had been both delayed or cancelled. About half had been worldwide flights.
In all, about 3 % of flights on the airport had been cancelled on Friday, in accordance with the flight-tracking web site Flightaware.com.
“We apologize there aren’t any new updates in the mean time,” JFK mentioned in a tweet on Friday afternoon. “Please proceed to examine along with your air provider for flight standing.”
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, JFK’s proprietor, was working with the terminal’s operator to revive flight operations as shortly as doable, it mentioned.
JFK mentioned it was working to accommodate affected flights utilizing different terminals on the airport.