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[–] 29 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I am highly skeptical that work on some copper wire at a remote location could cause a nation-wide communications failure. The people pfoviding this explanation are proven liars and idiots; the people who built our nation-wide communications network were not. This reeks of bullshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    I don’t disagree but from my understanding the affected areas were O Hare, Newark and a couple other airports. Those are extremely large airports and have flights coming from all over the country. I think they were trying to mitigate any new flights flying over their airpspace without having comms so they grounded everyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 34 minutes ago

    It was air traffic centers that were affected, not specific airports. All centers were listed as affecred initially, but there were some reports that a couple were still operating. The US has 22 centers in total, around the busiest regions

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