{
  "id": 9055738,
  "title": "Over 1,000 flights cancelled as air travel disrupted across US Northeast; services resume: What caused the outage?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/over-1-000-flights-cancelled-as-air-travel-disrupted-across-us",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-22T01:24:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Mint",
    "slug": "live-mint",
    "url": "https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/over-1-000-flights-cancelled-as-air-travel-disrupted-across-us-northeast-services-resume-what-caused-the-outage-11790039694714.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Monday, over 1,000 flights were canceled and more than 6,000 delayed across the United States' Northeast region due to equipment outages at Newark Liberty International Airport and Philadelphia International Airport. The disruptions peaked at Newark, with no commercial flights landing from 9:40 am to 5:20 pm local time, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24. The FAA facility in Philadelphia experienced a primary communications line failure, which was subsequently disrupted by a railroad construction crew. When the backup fiber optic line was activated, it was found to have been cut by a New Jersey Transit construction crew. This left controllers without radar or communications for hours, causing a ripple effect throughout the Northeast and the US. President Donald Trump and numerous foreign leaders were en route to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City at the time. The FAA and various airlines, including United Airlines, worked to restore services, with some airlines offering customers the flexibility to change flights without charge. By Monday evening, commercial air traffic had resumed at most airports, though some delays remained.",
  "summary": "More than 1,000 flights were canceled nationwide and over 6,000 were delayed on Monday, with Newark and Philadelphia hit the hardest, a report claimed.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}