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Saturday April 22 2:35 PM ET

Wind Knocks Out Radar at Boston's Logan Airport


BOSTON (Reuters) - High winds bent a radar antenna at Logan Airport in Boston early on Saturday, causing flight delays and cancellations, an airport official said.

The Federal Aviation Administration radar, which handles incoming flights, was knocked out of service at about 4 a.m. EDT, limiting the number of landings to 15 or 20 flights an hour, airport spokesman Jose Juves said.

The antenna was expected to remain out of service for at least three days and as long as a week, and airlines had begun adopting contingency plans, Juves said.

US Airways was considering busing passengers to the airport in Manchester, N.H., about 50 miles north of Boston, Juves said.

``Our concern is for tomorrow, when people come back from their April school vacation,'' Juves said.

Typically in the sort of rainy, windy weather that battered New England on Saturday, Logan Airport can land 35 to 40 planes an hour, with as many as 60 landings an hour during peak times in clear weather, he said.