Airspace shutdown across nine states after major ATC outage | World News Tonight

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Major ATC radar and radio outage grounds hundreds of flights across nine states; coverage also includes U.S. missile stockpile concerns, Miss North Carolina title stripping and other national headlines.

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ABC’s report about a massive air traffic control outage that knocked out radar and radio across 330,000 square miles is a vivid reminder that airlines live or die by systems nobody notices until they fail. United Airlines appears in the story when a flight returned after a blown tire, which is exactly the kind of operational snag that can cascade into cancelled schedules and higher costs. With the coverage running alongside updates about the war with Iran, the clip ties routine operational risk to a wider set of shocks that can ripple through airline economics and investor expectations.