Part of US-UK Air Traffic Meltdown · 2 stories · since Sep 4 · newest 20h ago
Fiber cut by NJ Transit crew triggers Northeast-wide flight ground stopsDisruption spreads to JFK, LaGuardia and Boston
3 Sep 21 2:51 PM · 2d ago · 19 articles · 1 video · 12 posts · 5 comments · 8 sources · development 3 of 8
A ground stop at Philadelphia caused by construction damage delayed flights further, hitting New York's JFK and LaGuardia airports as well as Boston.
“BREAKING: Ground stop at Philadelphia Airport due to construction damage delays flights at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark.”
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Sean Duffy US Transportation Secretary
Bryan Bedford FAA AdministratorNJ Transit New Jersey rail operatorVerizon Owner of the damaged cableDouglas Tewnion Stranded traveler
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first by bbc.com, 2d ago · also Times of India, BBC
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- Flights grounded at major US airports after construction workers cut backup cable Times of India · 2d ago
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first by Mastodon, 1d ago · also BBC
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The FAA has grounded flights at New York, Boston, New Jersey, and Philadelphia airports after Trump's Department of Transportation accidentally cut a fiber line during Air Traffic Control system renovations.
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BREAKING: Ground stop at Philadelphia Airport due to construction damage delays flights at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark. Katy Tur reports.
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FAA orders ground stops at major NYC area airports because of a failed circuit connecting tri-state hubs. https://www. nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/newa rk-airport-ground-stop-equipment-issues/6550060/
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I don't quite understand this sort of thing happening. Wasn't the whole point of the internet to be a self-healing network where we route around severed cables, etc?Or is it that these ATC networks are their own air-gapped network with less redundancy? That just doesn't add up. Or maybe there was only one line going to the ATC, with no multiple…
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Flights are grounded through at least 1:45 p.m. At Newark, 179 flights have been canceled and 224 are delayed as of 1:10 p.m. due to a ground stop caused by an equipment failure. https://www. nj.com/news/2026/09/newark-hit -again-as-equipment-failure-halts-flights-at-3-airports-monday.html
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> When it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fiber had a breakPretty grim that a life critical system wasn't designed to report that the backup fibre was unserviceable until they attempted to switch over to it.I wonder how long it was down? Days, weeks, months?
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East Coast Flights Disrupted Due to Communication Failures https://www. nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/east -coast-flights-ground-stop-communication-failure.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into U.S. @ u-s-newyorktimes
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It has been conjectured that the easiest way to locate a buried fiber optic cable is to start digging.(The actual easiest method is to install the conduit or direct burial cable with tracer wire)
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Flights grounded at major US airports after cable cut by construction workers
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ATC seems like a great place to have redundancy with a starlink dish on the roof.
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