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A severed Verizon fiber cable used for air traffic control grounded hundreds of flights across the Northeast on Monday, a disruption that lands just days before JetBlue Airways Corp. releases earnings on October 28.
The incident highlights the fragile physical infrastructure underpinning US aviation operations, with the outage causing immediate ground stops at all three major New York City airports.
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford stated that a circuit failure initially led crews to discover the severed line, confirming the operational breakdown that halted throughput in the region.
Operational Disruption and Liability The physical damage occurred when construction contractors in New Jersey dug up and cut the cable.
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