UK air traffic control failure: what caused it, and who will have to pay?

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UK air traffic control failure: what caused it, and who will have to pay?
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We look at what lies behind hundreds of thousands of people having their flights cancelled or delayed

Hundreds of thousands of passenger flightsWhat was the ‘technical failure’?

The automatic flight planning system used by Nats, the company that provides national air traffic control services in the UK, was out of action for several hours on Monday. Airspace was not closed, but the number of planes in the sky was severely restricted while the automated system was down.Nats says that the failure was triggered by a single piece of data in a flight plan that was wrongly input to its system by an unnamed airline.

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