Air traffic control: NATS 'not ruling out anything' after glitch causes widespread disruption
- The chief executive of National Air Traffic Services is unable to reveal the cause of the recent air traffic control glitch that affected thousands of passengers, but a French airline misfiling its flight plan is suspected as the potential cause. NATS denies any indication of a cyber attack being the cause.
- The glitch resulted in the cancellation of at least 281 flights across the UK's six busiest airports, affecting around a quarter of a million people. EasyJet has announced repatriation flights and the use of larger aircraft on key routes to alleviate the disruption.
- British athletes were stranded in Budapest due to the flight chaos, while frustrated holidaymakers described their experiences of being stranded without essential medication and enduring long delays at airports.
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Air traffic control blames disruptions on inbound 'flight data'
Initial investigations have found that the massive failure of air traffic control's systems was caused by incoming flight data, which caused its systems to suspend its automatic processing.
Air traffic control: NATS 'not ruling out anything' after glitch causes widespread disruption
The chief executive of National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has said he cannot reveal the cause of the glitch which has affected thousands of passengers but is "not ruling out anything at this stage".
Flight data glitch ’caused air traffic control chaos'
Back-up systems responded by suspending automatic processing of information to ensure air traffic controllers couldn't receive the wrong data, according to the boss of air traffic control in the UK
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