Flight chaos caused by software defect in space of a millisecond, report says
The failure led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers affected.
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Flight chaos caused by software defect in space of a millisecond, report says
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A software defect in the UK's air traffic control system corrupted flight data in milliseconds, causing a six-hour outage that led to over 2,000 flight cancellations and affected hundreds of thousands of passengers. The error first occurred at 10am but was not declared a major incident until 12:30pm, according to a report.
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Flight chaos for hundreds of thousands was caused in ‘millisecond’ by software error
Error first occurred at 10am but major incident was not declared until 12.30pm, says report Business live – latest updates A software defect in part of the UK’s air traffic control system corrupted flight data “in the space of a millisecond”, leading to a six-hour outage and…
