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Air traffic control calamity disrupting hundreds of US flights spotlights the aging system

Air traffic control calamity disrupting hundreds of US flights spotlights the aging system
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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 afte...

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