A burning smell prompted the control tower at Newark airport outside of New York City to be evacuated, and a ground stop was ordered, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Air traffic was paused around 7:30 a.m. on Monday after a burning smell originating from an elevator in the control tower was reported at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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FAA personnel temporarily relocated to a backup control tower on the site before returning to the main tower once the situation was clear, and the ground stop ended roughly 30 minutes later.
The ground stop in Newark comes just hours after an Air Canada regional plane collided with an emergency vehicle at nearby LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The incident killed both the pilot and the co-pilot and injured several others.
Aboard the plane were 72 passengers and four crew members arriving in New York from Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. No passengers
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