India, May 9 -- The Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another massive outage on Friday after radar screens went black, a spokesperson for the FAA confirmed to PIX11 News. The outage took place around 3:55 AM local time and lasted about 90 seconds. A ground stop was issued, impacting hundreds of flights.

"There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar display at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace," the spokesperson said.

This comes after a similar outage on April 28. That first radar outage led to hundreds of flights being cancelled or delayed at the Newark airport in the past two weeks after the FAA slowed down traffic...