BY Daniel Howley
YAHOO!FINANCE

The airline industry and wireless carriers AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have reached a detente in their showdown over the potential for new 5G antennas to interfere with passenger and commercial flights.

For weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration and stakeholders in the airline industry have faced off over whether the deployment of so-called C-band 5G spectrum will cause radio altimeters in aircraft to malfunction.

That’s an important part of a plane, as it allows it to land in low visibility settings, while still being able to tell how far it is from the ground. But a last minute agreement between the aviation industry and AT&T and Verizon seems to have spared the U.S. from a deluge of flight cancellations just as airlines are trying to recover from COVID-induced slowdowns.

So how did the wireless companies and airlines come so close to disaster?

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