Military aircraft reportedly blamed for UK air traffic control outage
Passengers at Heathrow Airport in west London during the disruption on Tuesday. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAView image in fullscreenPassengers at Heathrow Airport in west London during the disruption on Tuesday. This is subject to the live Nats investigation, so it’d be inappropriate for us to comment further while that’s ongoing.”Explore more on these topicsAir transportAirline industryTransportFlightsnewsShareReuse this content
- ▪Passengers at Heathrow Airport in west London during the disruption on Tuesday.
- ▪Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAView image in fullscreenPassengers at Heathrow Airport in west London during the disruption on Tuesday.
- ▪This is subject to the live Nats investigation, so it’d be inappropriate for us to comment further while that’s ongoing.”Explore more on these topicsAir transportAirline industryTransportFlightsnewsShareReuse this content
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Passengers at Heathrow Airport in west London during the disruption on Tuesday. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAView image in fullscreenPassengers at Heathrow Airport in west London during the disruption on Tuesday. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAAir transportMilitary aircraft reportedly blamed for UK air traffic control outage Meltdown that grounded thousands of flights caused by ‘spurious’ flight data being entered into system, report saysFri 11 Sep 2026 19.04 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleThe 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…
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