Buffalo airport loses aircraft fuel supply for about 14 hours

Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) could not supply aircraft fuel for about 14 hours on Monday, August 24, after a circuit failure in its fuel farm system, according to an aviation notice covering the airport.

The notice said fuel was unavailable from 2:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. local time. Emergency repair work followed at the site.

Some departures were affected. Several aircraft reportedly had to divert to other airports to take on fuel before continuing their journeys.

It is not yet clear how many flights were affected in total, or which airlines had diversions. The cause of the circuit failure and the full scope of the repairs have not been disclosed.

Airport fuel farms store and distribute jet fuel to aircraft on the ground. Disruptions of this kind can affect a day's schedule, delaying turnarounds and forcing crews to plan alternate fueling stops. This outage lasted through much of the operational day, which made it more disruptive than a brief technical fault would have been.

No further information was available on when normal fuel service fully resumed, or whether any structural repairs beyond the immediate fix are planned.