Construction mistake grounds hundreds of US flights
Eastern U.S. airports experienced hundreds of flight cancellations and delays due to a telecommunications outage caused by an error during construction work, when an Amtrak team accidentally cut a fiber optic cable in New Jersey. This disruption affected both primary and backup communication lines, leading to flight suspensions at LaGuardia, Newark, and John F. Kennedy airports, with 168 flights canceled and 97 delayed at Newark, and 63 cancellations along with 189 delays in Philadelphia. System recovery is expected early this afternoon, but restoring the backup line could take approximately 13 hours.
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