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A cut cable disrupted hundreds of flights across the US

Global Published 22 September 2026, 04:48 · archived 22 Sep 2026

Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed on Monday after construction crews in New Jersey accidentally cut a Verizon fiber cable used for air traffic control. FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said that a circuit failure led to the discovery of the severed fiber cable, ABC News reports. The outage hammered airports across the Northeast, causing […]

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