(CNN) — Radar and communications outages in Dallas prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to stop flights Friday afternoon at the area’s two largest airports.

“The FAA is slowing flights into Dallas Love Field and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport due to a reported equipment issue at Dallas TRACON,” the FAA said in a statement. The FAA is investigating the cause of the outage.

The Terminal Radar Approach Control, handles flights arriving or departing the two airports.

“We’ve lost all radar and phone communications,” the controller in the Dallas Love Field Air Traffic Control tower said in audio recorded by LiveATC.net . “I’m not departing anybody until we can get a system setup. We have no coms with approach right now,”

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