A power blackout brought on by a separated fire has actually interrupted flights at one of the busiest airports on the planet.
A terminal at New York City’s John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) was closed on Friday due to an electrical blackout that interfered with incoming and outgoing flights at one of the world’s busiest airports.
The blackout started after an electrical panel stopped working and triggered a little, separated fire that was instantly snuffed out over night in Terminal 1, the airport stated. The terminal, among 5 at the airport, serves numerous worldwide providers, consisting of Air France and Lufthansa.
The failure required a JFK-bound Air New Zealand aircraft to go back to Auckland about 8 hours into its journey.
Air New Zealand stated “diverting to another United States port would have implied the airplane would stay on the ground for a number of days, affecting a variety of other set up services and clients.” The airline company stated all travelers on the flight have actually been accommodated on flights leaving Auckland.
The Federal Aviation Administration decreased to comment about the disturbances to flight.
Since 1:30 pm (18:30 GMT) on Friday, JFK’s site revealed 120 incoming and outgoing flights were either postponed or cancelled. About half were worldwide flights.
In all, about 3 percent of flights at the airport had actually been cancelled on Friday, according to the flight-tracking site Flightaware.com.
“We say sorry there are no brand-new updates at the minute,” JFK stated in a tweet on Friday afternoon. “Please continue to consult your air provider for flight status.”
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, JFK’s owner, was dealing with the terminal’s operator to bring back flight operations as rapidly as possible, it stated.
JFK stated it was working to accommodate afflicted flights utilizing other terminals at the airport.