By David Shepardson
Feb 18 (Reuters) – Traffic was disrupted at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday after a Florida-bound JetBlue flight suffered an engine failure on takeoff and returned to the airport, officials said.
Passengers and crew on Flight 543 exited the Airbus A320 on a taxiway after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and evacuated passengers via slides, the Federal Aviation Administration said. No injuries were reported.
The FAA has temporarily paused some arrivals to the airport and will investigate the incident that occurred around 5:55 p.m. ET. The plane had been bound for West Palm Beach, Florida.
(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington Anshuman Tripathy in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona and Chris Reese)
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