New Telecom System Blamed For Major U.S. ATC Outage

FAA has determined that the source of a major ATC glitch yesterday morning was a relatively new telecommunications system, and lawmakers are calling for an investigation. The problem occurred at about 5 a.m. EST on Nov. 19, when some systems — including flight data processing — went offline. The...

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