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US: Air Travel Resumes After Cut Cable Grounds Thousands of Flights

Does the outage demonstrate why upgrades are needed?

3 hours ago·Updated 2 hours ago

US: Air Travel Resumes After Cut Cable Grounds Thousands of Flights

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Above: Airplanes at Newark Liberty International Airport on Aug. 8. Image credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

While this was an inadvertent mistake that caused the outages, this incident underscores the need for additional funding to modernize aging infrastructure and prevent disruptions like this in the future.

Sean Duffy on X

Establishment-critical narrative

Not only did the primary line fail, but the entire system went down when the backup line was severed. How is it that the entirety of Northeast air travel is dependent on such a flimsy system?

Allen H. Blackwell on X