A telecommunication outage caused Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers in Dallas to lose radar and some communications Friday afternoon, leading to flights being stopped at the area’s airports.
After a virtual shutdown of airports across the city, some flights were allowed to resume after 3:30 p.m. CT. Operations at Dallas Fort Worth and Dallas Love Field have since returned to normal, the FAA said in a statement Saturday afternoon.
The issue stemmed from “two cut fiber optic cables,” affecting data used by radar and other systems, American Airlines said in a memo shared with CNN Saturday, citing the FAA…