Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed on Monday after construction crews in New Jersey accidentally cut a Verizon fiber cable used for air traffic control.
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US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut
A cut cable disrupted hundreds of flights across the US
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