Outage That Swamped Air Travel Blamed on ‘Routine’ Work to Replace Copper Wire
A Wall Street Journal article by Joseph Pisani reports on the outage that swamped U.S. air travel and sent airlines rushing to reset. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the outage was traced to routine work replacing copper wires with fiber at a single remote facility, which overloaded a router, and that authorities are focused on contractor L3Harris, which he said either installed a faulty router or was "not doing great work for us."