Software Defect Caused UK Flight Chaos in Millisecond
💡 Why it matters
The incident highlights critical vulnerabilities in air traffic control systems, potentially leading to stricter regulations and costly upgrades to prevent future disruptions.
A software defect in the UK's air traffic control system corrupted flight data in a millisecond, causing a six-hour outage that led to over 2,000 flight cancellations and affected hundreds of thousands of passengers. The report into the incident left questions unanswered about.
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BBC News
Flight chaos caused by software defect in space of a millisecond, report says
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The Guardian
Flight chaos for hundreds of thousands was caused in ‘millisecond’ by software error
21d ago
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