UK flight chaos caused by millisecond software glitch in air traffic control
A defect in the UK's air traffic control system corrupted flight data instantaneously, triggering a six-hour outage that disrupted hundreds of thousands of travellers.
National Air Traffic Services attributed last week's widespread UK airline cancellations and delays to a software error that corrupted flight data in milliseconds, according to a report reviewed by UK ministers. The outage lasted six hours and affected hundreds of thousands of passengers across the country.
Ministers said the investigation raised unresolved questions about why the defect was not identified and corrected before causing disruption, stating they needed "to urgently understand why this issue was not discovered and fixed before it caused chaos."
Sources
- Flight chaos for hundreds of thousands was caused in ‘millisecond’ by software error — The Guardian — World
EGazette summarizes reporting from multiple sources; follow the links for the originals.
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