A technical error triggered by incorrect flight data from a military aircraft has been identified as the cause of a major air traffic control outage that disrupted travel across the UK. The failure led to the cancellation of over 2,000 flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers after the system used by National Air Traffic Services went offline for several hours. Investigators now say the issue stemmed from erroneous information being fed into the network, rather than a broader system failure. The incident highlights ongoing vulnerabilities in air traffic management infrastructure.
Meltdown that grounded thousands of flights caused by ‘spurious’ flight data being entered into system, report saysThe air traffic control outage that caused thousands of flights to be grounded across the UK earlier in the week was caused by a military aircraft entering “spurious” flight data into the system, according to a report.Hundreds of thousands of passengers were affected after more than 2,000 flights were cancelled on Tuesday when the system used by the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) shut down for four hours. Continue reading...
