May 11 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday that a new telecommunications issue at the facility that guides aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport forced the agency to briefly slowed aircraft in and out of the airport.

The Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control suffered a new problem that briefly led the FAA car service from manhattan to newark airport issue a ground stop while it ensured redundancies were working as designed.

The FAA said operations have returned to normal. On Friday, the Philadelphia facility suffered a 90-second radar and telecommunications outage, the second in two weeks. (Reporting by David Shepardson Editing by Bill Berkrot)