A severed fiber-optic cable in New Jersey disrupted air travel across parts of the Northeast on Monday, showing how a single infrastructure problem can quickly ripple through the nation’s airline system.

Rich Davis, senior security advisor at International SOS and former chief security officer at United Airlines, told FOX Business that even a localized outage can quickly disrupt flights far beyond where it begins because airline networks are tightly interconnected.

“It’s like a spider web of activity that’s happening and everybody is impacted, especially connecting passengers versus nonstop,” Davis said. “… Something that is only happening in…

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