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 stopsOfficials trace outage to a backup fiber cut discovered mid-failover
4 Sep 21 3:18 PM · 2d ago · 22 articles · 13 posts · 2 comments · 4 sources · development 4 of 8
A primary circuit connecting airports failed, leading to discovery that the backup fiber circuit had also been damaged by a New Jersey construction crew; officials said the roughly 600-foot cut would take over 13 hours to fix.
“led to the discovery of a backup fiber circuit which had been damaged by construction crews in New Jersey. The 600 ft cut will take 13+ hours to fix.”
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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 Globe and Mail, 2d ago · also NYT, Channel News Asia, Indian Express, Reuters, The Hindu, Al Jazeera +1
5 more headlines
- Technical Problems Ground Flights at Major East Coast Airports NYT · 2d ago
- US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut at construction site Channel News Asia · 2d ago
- U.S. halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut at construction site The Hindu · 2d ago
- FAA halts flights to major US East Coast airports amid outage Al Jazeera · 2d ago
- US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fibre line cut at construction site Straits Times · 2d ago
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Massive air-traffic disruption in NY area airports, bleeding into other airports. Cause: A primary circuit connecting airports failed, which "led to the discovery of a backup fiber circuit which had been damaged by construction crews in New Jersey." The 600 ft cut will take 13+ hours to fix. We all periodically test backup systems, right?…
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Not to be conspiratorial, but about an hour ago I saw this in The Economist: "Russia’s grey-zone attacks on Europe are growing more brazen"[QUOTE:]Russia has been staging covert operations and deniable provocations against European countries for many years. Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022 they have increased. These have…
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“At least five airports along the East Coast, including four that serve the New York region, experienced significant ground stops on Monday after a radio communications system in Philadelphia and its backup failed, triggering flight delays across one of the country’s most congested corridors.” Technical Problems Ground Flig...
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Building multiple diverse paths and monitoring for fiber cuts is not hard. Having 2 fiber paths is insufficient for even only moderately important workloads at a tech company. Overlapping fiber cuts happen. For something with significant economic and safety impact this is just crazy.Sometimes the level of incompetence / lack of care in…
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https://www. europesays.com/us/1077168/ Flights halted out of Newark and Philadelphia after air traffic equipment failure # America # PA # pennsylvania # Philadelphia # UnitedStates # UnitedStatesOfAmerica # UnitedStates # UnitedStatesofAmerica # US # USA
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Oopsie! BBC: Flights delayed at major US airports after cable cut by construction workers https://www. bbc.com/news/live/c6j9xpgl8pzwt # aviation
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https://www. nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/east -coast-flights-ground-stop-communication-failure.html
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