NEW YORK: Flights at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport resumed on Saturday after the airport closed its runways due to reports of a possible fire in the hold of a cargo plane that was diverted there, officials said.
The aircraft was headed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Montreal, Canada, when it made an emergency landing in Newark at around 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT), the Federal Aviation Administration said on Twitter.
Firefighters responded to the scene and passengers were evacuated on emergency slides, the FAA said.
Newark International Airport, is one of the major airports of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and is located in the US state of New Jersey.
The airport straddles the boundary between the cities of Newark and Elizabeth, the former of which is the most populous city in the state.
The airport is owned jointly by the cities of Elizabeth and Newark and leased to and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
In 2017, EWR was the fifteenth busiest airport in the United States, and the forty-third busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, serving 43,393,499 passengers. In 2018, the airport saw 46,065,175 passengers, the most in its history.
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