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Traffic was temporarily <\/strong>disrupted at Newark Liberty international airport in New Jersey<\/a> on Wednesday after a Florida-bound JetBlue flight suffered an engine failure on takeoff and returned to the airport, officials said.<\/p>\n Crew on flight 543 reported smoke in the cockpit, and after an emergency landing, passengers and crew exited the Airbus A320 on a taxiway via slides, the Federal Aviation Administration said. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what caused the incident. The FAA said it will investigate.<\/p>\n The FAA temporarily paused some arrivals to the airport. Operations resumed shortly after 7.00pm ET, the port authority said.<\/p>\n Flight tracking site FlightAware said 183 (or 31%) of arriving flights were delayed at Newark along with 177 (30%) of departing flights.<\/p>\n According to CBS<\/a> and ABC<\/a>, flights were paused in and out of the airport while the JetBlue plane was removed from the runway.<\/p>\n The plane had been bound for West Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n \u201cSafety is JetBlue\u2019s top priority. We are focused on supporting our customers and crewmembers and will work closely with the appropriate federal authorities to investigate what occurred,\u201d JetBlue said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #JetBlue #engine #failure #takeoff #Newark #airport #disrupts #air #traffic #Jersey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Traffic was temporarily disrup… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}