Two separate ground stops temporarily snarled traffic at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina on Monday.
According to WRAL-TV, work crews accidentally cut a fiber-optic telecommunications line Monday morning while carrying out a plumbing-related repair. The incident paused flights at Raleigh-Durham for about 20 minutes, and disruptions continued through the afternoon.
The air traffic control tower at the airport remained operational during the outage…