Flights to DC area airports were able to resume normal operations after suffering delays and reroutes Sunday after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a ground stop due to problems with a communication system at a traffic control facility. air in Virginia.
“The FAA has paused departures to DC area airports while repairs are made to a communications system at the Potomac Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility. The facility has switched to a backup system,” it said. the FAA in a statement. cheep Sunday just before 6:30 pm ET.
It was not clear exactly what was wrong with the communications system. The FAA did not immediately respond to an overnight request for comment from NBC News.
The issue caused flight delays and reroutes in the DC area, including as far as Richmond, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday, NBC Washington reported.
the faa Announced Less than an hour after departures were paused, flights to DC-area airports resumed and communications panel repairs were completed.
“During the repairs, a backup system safely handled communications,” the FAA said, adding: “Normal operations resume.”
Flights from the West Coast, Midwest and Florida bound for DC-area airports resumed around 6:45 p.m. ET, while all other flights resumed around 7 p.m., NBC Washington reported.
