Minnesota Radar Outage Delays Omaha and Lincoln Flights, Cancels 1 at Eppley
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Updated · WOWT · Aug 6
Minnesota Radar Outage Delays Omaha and Lincoln Flights, Cancels 1 at Eppley
3 articles · Updated · WOWT · Aug 6
Summary
Eppley Airfield showed several delays and one cancellation just after 4 p.m., while Lincoln Airport listed two delayed flights by 4:30 p.m. as regional air traffic control problems spread south from Minnesota.
Minnesota radar issues disrupted air traffic control operations, and Lincoln said flights were preparing to depart again from Minneapolis after the problem was corrected.
MSP Airport confirmed at 4:16 p.m. that operations were resuming, though earlier reports said a regional FAA equipment outage had triggered a ground stop around 2 p.m.
The broader outage grounded flights across Minnesota and nine other Midwest states, with Minneapolis delays averaging about 90 minutes even after systems came back online.