The UK’s air traffic control system was brought down on the August bank holiday in a “one in 15 million” event, its boss said.
The system shut itself down after receiving highly unusual duplicate “markers” on a flight plan.
Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled as a result on 28 August, a bank holiday, and the day after.
Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled as a result on 28 August, a bank holiday, and the day after.
Newly released details have revealed how part of the UK’s air traffic control system shut itself down automatically in just a matter of seconds after the extremely rare error.
Martin Rolfe, chief executive of Nats, said that the system did “what it was designed to do, i.e. fail safely when it receives data that it can’t process”.
He described it as “a one in 15 million flight plan that we received”, meaning the engineers took a few hours to work out a situation they were not familiar with.
Nats, formerly known as National Air Traffic Services, said it had taken measures to prevent the situation from happening again.
The UK’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), has also announced an independent review, expected to report in a few months’ time. The watchdog said it could take action if Nats had breached “statutory and licensing obligations”.
The UK’s air traffic control system was brought down on the August bank holiday in a “one in 15 million” event, its boss said.
Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled as a result on 28 August, a bank holiday, and the day after.
The system shut itself down after receiving highly unusual duplicate “markers” on a flight plan.
Newly released details have revealed how part of the UK’s air traffic control system shut itself down automatically in just a matter of seconds after the extremely rare error.
Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled as a result on 28 August, a bank holiday, and the day after.
Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled as a result on 28 August, a bank holiday, and the day after.
Newly released details have revealed how part of the UK’s air traffic control system shut itself down automatically in just a matter of seconds after the extremely rare error.
Martin Rolfe, chief executive of Nats, said that the system did “what it was designed to do, i.e. fail safely when it receives data that it can’t process”.
He described it as “a one in 15 million flight plan that we received”, meaning the engineers took a few hours to work out a situation they were not familiar with.
Nats, formerly known as National Air Traffic Services, said it had taken measures to prevent the situation from happening again.
The UK’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), has also announced an independent review, expected to report in a few months’ time. The watchdog said it could take action if Nats had breached “statutory and licensing obligations”.
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