Air traffic control: NATS 'not ruling out anything' after glitch causes widespread disruption

‘Unusual piece of data’ caused flight chaos – air traffic control boss

An “unusual piece of data” caused widespread flight disruption, an air traffic control (ATC) boss said, as airlines are under growing pressure over their treatment of passengers. Many UK holidaymakers are stranded overseas after around 2,000 flights were cancelled because of the issue. There is speculation the ATC failure was caused by a French airline submitting a flight plan to National Air Traffic Services (Nats) in the wrong format. Downing …

Caused by ‘incorrect’ flight data: Latest updates on UK air traffic chaos

UK Air Traffic Chaos: Reiterating UK government’s previous statement, the air traffic control boss said that it was not caused by a cyber-attack.

UK: 'Incorrect' Flight Data Cause of Air Traffic Control Chaos

Massive disruption in UK flights due to incorrect flight data causing cancellations and delays. Air traffic control assures normalcy and investigates the issue

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 received by air traffic services ’caused air traffic control fault’

There are no indications that the failure was caused by a cyber-attack, according to National Air Traffic Services (Nats).