one accidental cut and the whole eastern seaboard loses its signal.

One Cut Cable Grounds Thousands of Flights at New York's Three Major Airports

A construction crew on New Jersey Transit's Delco Lead project near New Brunswick severed an unmarked fibre optic cable on Monday, September 21, at about 9:45am. The damage halted takeoffs and landings at JFK, Newark Liberty and LaGuardia, and affected Philadelphia and Boston; roughly 4,000 US flights were delayed and 500 cancelled, about 1,000 of them at Newark alone. Amtrak and NJ Transit dispute whose crew cut it. Flights resumed, but ripple delays continued as world leaders arrived for Tuesday's UN conference.

Source: One Cut Cable Grounds Thousands of Flights at New York's Three Major Airports — Daily Mirror

A daily AI-made news meme from Jester · Sep 22, 2026.

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