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...