Answer to Dictation 1
Thousands of flights across the USA were grounded on Friday the 13th.
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Answer to Dictation 2
A major communications failure in the country's air traffic control system.
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Answer to Dictation 3
Thousands of flights were cancelled, leaving passengers stranded at airports.
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Answer to Dictation 4
The problem was eventually traced to an overloaded router.
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Answer to Dictation 5
The FAA lifted the ground stop almost five hours later.
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Answer to Dictation 6
Officials quickly reassured the public that it was not another 9/11.
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Answer to Dictation 7
There had been no indication of a cyberattack or national security threat.
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Answer to Dictation 8
The transportation secretary blamed the failure on outdated infrastructure.
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Answer to Dictation 9
We have old switches and old routers. We use 1980s little copper lines.
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Answer to Dictation 10
The secretary warned that systems would continue to break.
See the ground stop at US airports lesson for the whole text.
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