UK air traffic control failure grounds over 1,000 flights, disrupting hundreds of thousands
Another air traffic control outage forced cancellations across UK airports, with at least 1,000 flights cancelled by Tuesday evening and disruptions continuing into Wednesday.
A third air traffic control failure in just over three years disrupted UK aviation on Tuesday, forcing the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights and affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers. At least 177 additional flights scheduled for Wednesday to and from UK airports had been cancelled, with nearly all cancellations at London Heathrow, according to plane tracking site Flightradar24.
The outage kept planes grounded for hours and prompted airlines to call for an overhaul of the system. Flight delays and cancellations were expected to continue into Wednesday.
Sources
- UK air traffic control chaos disrupts flights for hundreds of thousands of passengers — The Guardian — World
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