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Cut Cables Trigger Dallas Flight Disruptions | Aviation Week Network
A telecommunications outage caused a significant disruption to Dallas-areas flights as impacts surfaced just before the busy weekend period.

Cut Cables Trigger Dallas Flight Disruptions
A telecommunications outage caused a significant disruption to Dallas-areas flights as impacts surfaced just before, and lingered through, the busy weekend period.
According to American Airlines, the issue first surfaced in the early afternoon on Sept. 19. By the end of the day more than 25% of outbound flights had been cancelled at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), and more than 30% delayed, data from FlightAware shows. For American, DFW’s largest carrier, the impacts have been far-reaching.
“The FAA has shared with us that the issue originally stemmed from two cut fiber optic cables,” COO David Seymour detailed in a Sept. 20 message to employees, cables he said impacted the area’s FAA radars, radio frequencies and computer systems.
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