US flights resume after ageing technology blamed for outage

Aljazeera
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Nov 14, 2026
of the 41,000 flights that were lost.
Those crews, pilots, and flight attendants
need to get to their points of reconnection
with their schedules.
Our airline partners are working through that.
We do anticipate somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000
of the 41,000 flights that are scheduled today
likely will cancel.
So we will still have delays and cancellations today,
but that will set us up for a full recovery tomorrow.
Well we're stuck here for the next I don't know 36 hours
because our flight was meant to leave at
7 25 for Oklahoma City
and because of what happened yesterday our flight is not leaving
at 5 55 p.m tomorrow so we are not arriving
um Oklahoma City at until 12 midnight tomorrow so
we're basically stuck here.
Either through contractor error
or a faulty piece of equipment
That router that was being replaced
as we switched from copper to fiber,
it started flooding other routers in our air traffic control system.
So specifically,
we had over 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds.
And what that did was gave us issues
with our communication with airplanes,
and it also caused some disruption with our radar feeds.
And when we see that, your safety is paramount.
We shut down the airspace.
