In July, the FAA said a new air traffic control center serving the busy New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan areas would be built somewhere in New York.

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"That guy passed us now and that was not good, " the pilot of American Airlines flight 951 told the controllers at New York Air Traffic Control Center, the country's busiest.

MSN: Air traffic controllers blamed for 2011 close call

Saturday's failure was caused by a software malfunction, while the error earlier in the month, which caused the system to shut down for 20 minutes, was caused by incorrect input by an adjoining air traffic control center.

CNN: Software glitch delays London flights

American Airlines equipped several airplanes that conducted airborne tests with the Federal Aviation Administration's Miami air-traffic control center.

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We'll go to the brain center for air traffic control.

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