Hundreds of US flights canceled due to outage
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September 21, 2026
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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Hundreds of flights from United States (US) East Coast airports were cancelled or delayed Monday due to a telecommunications line outage caused by a construction mistake, US officials said.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X that around 1900 GMT, flights were resuming at LaGuardia Airport and Philadelphia, while flights into Newark and JFK Airports were paused.
“An Amtrak construction crew accidentally cut into a fibre line in New Jersey, which caused a telecom outage and forced FAA to pause flights in the Northeast,” Duffy said.
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