UK: "Highly complex" air traffic control outage triggers cascade of flight cancellations
The British air traffic control authority says it has resolved the malfunction, but hundreds of flights were still cancelled on Wednesday.
A malfunction described as "highly complex" struck the UK's air traffic control system, causing numerous flight cancellations over recent days, according to reports cited by Le Monde.
The British authority responsible for managing air traffic indicated that it had resolved the dysfunction responsible for the disruptions. However, the effects continued to be felt several days after the problem first emerged.
According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, at least 177 flights were cancelled on Wednesday. This figure represents a significant improvement compared to the previous day, Tuesday, when approximately 1,300 flights had been cancelled due to the same outage.
The scale of the disruption illustrates the major impact that a technical incident in the air traffic control system can have, given that this system coordinates aircraft movements throughout British airspace. The precise technical details about the cause of the outage were not immediately disclosed.
Airlines and passengers faced significant travel disruptions during this episode, whose severity dropped sharply within a twenty-four-hour period, according to figures cited by Flightradar24.
Sources
- Au Royaume-Uni, une panne du contrôle aérien « très complexe » a provoqué des annulations de vols en cascade — Le Monde — Une
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