Railroad work crews cut fiber optic cable, grounding flights across NYC

Air traffic into New York City’s major airports suffered heavy delays Monday after crews working on the Northeast Corridor rail line severed a fiber optic cable linking two major air traffic control centers. Around 9:45 a.m. on Monday, contractors working for NJ Transit accidentally severed a fiber optic line while working on a rail car storage project at a yard near the Northeast Corridor line in New Brunswick, according to a statement issued by the Garden State railroad. The severed cable appeared to have knocked out all communications between New York’s metro area air traffic control and its counterpart in...