disaster Philadelphia, United States
Air traffic control failures disrupt Northeast flights
13hours
The FAA administrator said the fiber break would probably take 13 hours to repair.
A failed primary circuit and a cut backup fiber-optic cable simultaneously disrupted air traffic at a Philadelphia FAA facility. More than 5,600 flights were delayed or canceled, including 1,200 at three New York-area airports; Newark had no commercial arrivals for nearly eight hours.
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Technical problems at a Philadelphia FAA facility disrupted flights in the U.S. Northeast.
4 of 4 sources“Communications failures that snarled hundreds of flights across the Northeast on Monday”