FAA restores Northeast flights after telecom failure disrupts more than 1,000 flights

The Federal Aviation Administration halted or restricted flights at multiple busy East Coast airports after a telecommunications failure disrupted air-traffic-control communications.³Backed by 3 sourcesCNAThe Hillstaradvertiser.com The initial failure involved a circuit carrying data into an air-traffic-control facility, and officials then found that a backup fiber-optic line had been cut at a construction site.¹Backed by 1 sourcesCNA

The outage disrupted more than 1,000 flights, including flights involving airports in the New York City area, Newark, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.¹Backed by 1 sourcesCNA The FAA later resumed operations at the affected Northeast airports after the telecommunications outage, although the supplied reports do not establish how quickly all delays and cancellations were cleared.¹Backed by 1 sourcesFox Business