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Military aircraft reportedly blamed for UK air traffic control outage

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  1. 13 September
  2. Latest13 Sept, 17:47

    UK air traffic control failure reportedly triggered by military flight plan

    A flight plan filed for a UK military aircraft reportedly introduced anomalous data into the flight-processing system run…

    AeroTimeAeroTime•Clement Charpentreau
  3. 12 September
  4. Follow-up12 Sept, 06:37

    Military aircraft flight plan reportedly triggered UK air traffic control outage

    Anomalous flight-plan data preceded the NATS failure that caused widespread disruption across Britain

    Air Data NewsAir Data News•Ricardo Meier
  5. 11 September
  6. First seen11 Sept, 23:04

    Military aircraft reportedly blamed for UK air traffic control outage

    Meltdown that grounded thousands of flights caused by ‘spurious’ flight data being entered into system, report says The 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...

    The GuardianThe Guardian•Guardian Staff