Air traffic control calamity disrupting hundreds of US flights spotlights the aging system
Communications failures that snarled hundreds of flights across the Northeast on Monday have put the spotlight back on the aging systems that air traffic controllers rely on in the U. S. Congress already handed the Federal Aviation Administration $12. 5 billion last year to overhaul technology after the deadliest U. S. plane crash in more than two decades killed 67 people when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River and a series of radar a...
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- California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
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Mon, 21 Sep 2026
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