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Repair Of Old Copper Wiring Led To Hours-Long Flight Mess: Team Trump

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday's four-hour ground stop was declared after maintenance work to upgrade an old copper wire.

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Passenger problems are not over. Air traffic is expected to return to mostly normal by Sunday evening.

·Helsinki, Finland
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The stoppage of domestic flights in the US, which led to the cancellation of thousands of flights, was caused by a problem arising from switching from a copper cable to optical fibre during the replacement of a router. The router that was being replaced then started sending an excessive flow of data to other routers, overloading the system. 1,000 connecting tests were recorded every four to five seconds, the transport secretary Sean Duffy explai…

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The nationwide air traffic disruption in the United States on Friday may have been caused by work by a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contractor replacing copper wiring with fiber-optic cabling, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday, according to Reuters and the AP. FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said air traffic should return to normal by the end of Sunday.

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The United States Secretary of Transport, Sean Duffy, made an official pronouncement on Saturday (14) after a blackout in the air traffic control system caused one of the biggest episodes of interruption of American aviation. Live, Duffy rejected the possibility of hacker attacks and ensured that 70% of copper cables for optical fibers. — The American air traffic control system is very old, not only the equipment, but the telecommunications syst…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The Telegraph broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Saturday, November 14, 2026.
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