A power outage at New York’s Kennedy International Airport has stretched into a second day.
FILE - A clock at the entrance to JFK Airport in New York is pictured on Aug. 15, 2003. Officials are investigating a close call at the New York airport that happened Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, between a plane that was crossing a runway and another that was preparing for takeoff. – A power outage in a terminal New York's John F.
The outage was caused by an electrical panel failure that led to a small fire, which was quickly extinguished, authorities said. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs New York's major airports, said it was working to accommodate affected flights at JFK’s four other active terminals.An Air New Zealand flight was two-thirds of the way across the Pacific Ocean when it had to make a U-turn andTerminal 1 opened in the late 1990s. It is scheduled to be replaced by a new, $9.5 billion terminal now under construction.
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