Flight fiasco lingers as delays at JFK, LaGuardia and EWR persist after cable cutting incident — Live Feedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/flight-fiasco-lingers-as-delays-at-jfk-laguardia-and-ewr-persist-after-cable-cutting-incidentContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. Fiber line cut triggers flight delays at major Northeast airportshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/flight-fiasco-lingers-as-delays-at-jfk-laguardia-and-ewr-persist-after-cable-cutting-incidenthttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/flight-fiasco-lingers-as-delays-at-jfk-laguardia-and-ewr-persist-after-cable-cutting-incident#u83211Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:20:43 +0000Flight delays persist at JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark airports after a construction crew severed a fiber line. The FAA grounded flights at several major East Coast airports, including Philadelphia International, though operations at PHL have since resumed. Transportation officials attribute the travel meltdown to a combination of the cable cut, an aging circuit, and the failure of a backup system. The incident disrupted hundreds of flights across the United States, exposing vulnerabilities in the national air traffic control infrastructure.Why it mattersThe outage highlights systemic weaknesses