{"id":502148,"date":"2026-03-13T20:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/alarm-in-washington-flights-suspended-at-four-airports-due-to-a-chemical-spill-in-the-potomac-river\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:49:19","slug":"alarm-in-washington-flights-suspended-at-four-airports-due-to-a-chemical-spill-in-the-potomac-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/alarm-in-washington-flights-suspended-at-four-airports-due-to-a-chemical-spill-in-the-potomac-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm in Washington: flights suspended at four airports due to a chemical spill in the Potomac River"},"content":{"rendered":"The <strong>Reagan National Airport<\/strong> announced that the <strong>Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)<\/strong> suspended flights at all commercial airports in the Washington D.C. area for an extended period on the night of <strong>Friday, March 13<\/strong>.\n\nThe affected terminals \u2014<strong>Thurgood Marshall Baltimore\u2013Washington International<\/strong>\u00a0(BWI),\u00a0<strong>Reagan National<\/strong>\u00a0(DCA) and\u00a0<strong>Dulles International<\/strong>\u00a0(IAD)\u2014 will keep ground operations halted until at least\u00a0<strong>8:00 PM<\/strong>, according to the FAA alert page.\n\nAccording to the <strong>Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority<\/strong>, this measure will cause <strong>significant delays and various cancellations<\/strong> for the rest of the day.\n\nPassengers were urged to <strong>check the updated status of their flights<\/strong> directly with each airline, due to schedule changes caused by the federal decision.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We recommend reading:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/vuelos-entre-rd-venezuela-18-marzo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Direct flights between DR and Venezuela will resume on March 18<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nAccording to the FAA, the <strong>presence of chemical odor<\/strong> was detected at the <strong>Potomac TRACON facility<\/strong>, an approach control center in <strong>Warrentton, Virginia<\/strong>, about <strong>80 kilometers from Washington D.C.<\/strong>\n\nThis agency coordinates air traffic in the region, excluding immediate takeoff and landing. The information was confirmed by the federal agency in communication with Telemundo 47.\n\nThe <strong>repairs<\/strong> on a collapsed underground pipe this year by <strong>DC Water<\/strong> are nearing completion, sources told <strong>News4<\/strong> this Friday.\n\nThe incident caused the discharge of&nbsp;<strong>more than 240 million gallons<\/strong>&nbsp;(approximately&nbsp;<strong>908 million liters<\/strong>) of wastewater and sewage into the Potomac, according to data reported by&nbsp;<em>NBC Washington<\/em>&nbsp;and corroborated by&nbsp;<strong>Sherri Lewis<\/strong>, spokesperson for the responsible entity.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Repercussions in airports and air traffic<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe <strong>FAA<\/strong> reported <strong>delays of up to 90 minutes<\/strong> on departures from <strong>Dulles International<\/strong>, a figure that could increase. The <strong>Philadelphia International Airport<\/strong> also recorded delays due to <strong>equipment failures<\/strong>.\n\nYou can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/disminuyen-cancelaciones-de-vuelos-entre-rd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flight cancellations between the Dominican Republic and the United States decrease despite winter storm<\/a>\n\n<strong>Sherri Lewis<\/strong> announced that the <strong>pipeline<\/strong> could <strong>return to service<\/strong> as soon as the repair tasks are completed.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reagan National Airport announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suspended flights at all commercial airports in the Washington D.C. area for an extended period on the night of Friday, March 13. The affected terminals \u2014Thurgood Marshall Baltimore\u2013Washington International\u00a0(BWI),\u00a0Reagan National\u00a0(DCA) and\u00a0Dulles International\u00a0(IAD)\u2014 will keep ground operations halted until at least\u00a08:00 PM, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26Da","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}