FAA halts flights to major US East Coast airports amid outage

Author: Al Jazeera StaffPublished on: September 21, 2026Country: United States

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FAA halts flights to major US East Coast airports amid outage

The FAA halted flights to several East Coast airports, including JFK and LaGuardia in New York, due to an equipment outage. Over 1,000 flights were affected as world leaders arrived in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. An Amtrak construction crew accidentally cut a fiber line, causing a telecom outage and forcing the FAA to pause flights in the Northeast.

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