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The cause of the nationwide ground stop that resulted in thousands of flight cancellations and stranded over 1 million travelers has been identified. And the source of the outage may come as a surprise to many.
The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday night that officials identified a single router in rural Arkansas as the cause of the worst airport crisis since 9/11. Specifically, the place in question is an FAA radio site in El Dorado, Arkansas.
Network gear at the El Dorado site overloaded the communications system used by thousands of air traffic control pilots. There were thousands of connections every four…
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