2026-09-23T22:31:40.372Z / 路透社
作者：大卫·谢泼德森
2026年9月23日 美国东部时间22:31 更新于1小时前
*2025年10月9日，美国新罕布什尔州纳舒厄，美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）波士顿空中航路交通管制中心标识。路透社/布莱恩·斯奈德
华盛顿9月23日路透电 —— 美国联邦航空管理局负责人表示，一段电信电路出现一系列故障提示，促使该局在周日切换至备用光纤线路，随后发生的中断导致东海岸数千架航班大面积延误。
FAA称，其承包商L3Harris曾告知，计划于周日切换至备用系统，以便在费城空中交通管制设施对该电路展开故障排查，不料新泽西州运输局承包商于周一在新不伦瑞克附近意外切断了备用光纤线路。
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L3Harris未立即回应置评请求。
美国国会去年批准125亿美元用于空中交通管制改革，但此次重大电信故障导致东海岸交通瘫痪数小时、数千架航班受影响后，该项目紧迫性显著提升。
周一，受FAA被迫暂停纽约、费城、波士顿和华盛顿机场航班数小时影响，全美约9500架航班延误或取消。
此次停飞波及各大机场进港航班，当日恰逢130位世界各国领导人及数十名部长前往纽约出席联合国大会年度高级别会议。
“我们必须摒弃旧系统，”FAA局长布莱恩·贝德福德周三在华盛顿一场活动中对记者表示，“旧系统一旦失灵，我们就无法获得现代化架构应有的冗余备份能力。”
贝德福德表示，他认为此次升级总耗资将达270亿美元。除其他账户资金外，国会还需为该项目再批准105亿美元。
贝德福德称，FAA需要在威瑞森或美国电话电报公司等现有网络基础上搭建现代化电信系统。
他表示，用光纤替换老旧铜线的工程预计将于2027年9月完成，但这不足以防止未来再次发生中断事故。
贝德福德称，项目第一阶段未能获得足够资金来满足新电信系统的需求，“这或许是个糟糕的决策”。
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US FAA says error messages in telecommunications circuit prompted shift to backup on Sunday
2026-09-23T22:31:40.372Z / Reuters
By David Shepardson
September 23, 2026 10:31 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
A sign marks the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., October 9, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – The head of the US Federal Aviation Administration said a series of error messages in a telecommunications circuit prompted the agency on Sunday to switch to a backup fiber line before an outage snarled thousands of flights along the East Coast.
The FAA said its contractor L3Harris advised they wanted to switch to the backup on Sunday to begin troubleshooting of the circuit at a Philadelphia air traffic control facility before a New Jersey Transit contractor on Monday accidentally cut the backup fiber line near New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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L3Harris did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Congress approved $12.5 billion to reform air traffic control last year, but the project has taken on new urgency since the major telecom failure paralyzed traffic along the East Coast for hours and disrupted thousands of flights.
On Monday, about 9,500 US flights were delayed or canceled after the FAA was forced to halt flights for hours to airports in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington.
This forced a halt to incoming flights at major airports on the day that 130 world leaders and dozens of ministers were arriving in New York for the annual high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
“We need to get rid of the old system,” FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters at an event in Washington on Wednesday. “When it fails, we just don’t have the redundancy that we would get if we had a modern architecture.”
Bedford said he thinks the upgrade will cost $27 billion in total. Including money from other accounts, Congress needs to approve another $10.5 billion for the project.
The FAA needs a modern telecom system on an existing network like Verizon or AT&T, Bedford said.
Replacing outdated copper wires with fiber is expected to be completed by September 2027 but will not be enough to prevent future outages, Bedford said.
They did not have enough money to address the need for a new telecom system in the first phase of the project “which probably might have been a bad decision,” Bedford said.
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Bill Berkrot
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