L3 Harris, a major defense company that has close ties to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced that during yesterday's total aircraft grounding, they were in the process of replacing 'outdated' copper telecommunications lines with fiber when Router 1 allegedly began to flood Area 2. Controlling routers with false data, which may have aided ground plane orders.
The L3 Harris spokesperson also stated that L3 Harris fully supports and will cooperate as needed with federal investigations as approximately 12,000 flights are disrupted, canceled or rescheduled on November 13, 2026 due to the grounding, as commercial airlines scramble to relocate crews to (mostly) comply with labor laws here, approx. was canceled in the United States today (November 14, 2026) with fewer than 2,000 rescheduled or postponed due to yesterday's outage.