FAA, airlines still working to resume normal air traffic after major glitch

The Washington Post: Airline and federal officials continued working to restore normal traffic on the East Coast on Sunday, a day after a routing-system glitch in a Washington-area control center caused hundreds of flights to be delayed or canceled.

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a written statement that officials were still trying to determine the cause of the outage of an automated routing system at a Leesburg, Va., control center that disrupted the management of 160,000 miles of airspace and forced the delay or cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights. The problem stranded passengers at Reagan National Airport, Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport and, to a lesser extent, Dulles International Airport.

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