Why does air traffic control keep failing?

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Sep 9, 202616:12News & Politics

Less up, up and away... more stuck on the tarmac. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and thousands of passengers stranded after yet another critical collapse of the country’s air traffic control system. While a cybe...

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