Passengers whose flights have been cancelled and have spent over 24 hours at Heathrow Airport
A glitch, whose cause is yet to be known, at a United Kingdom Control Tower has rendered the UK’s entire flight-control system inoperative and, as a result, over 1000 flights have been cancelled Thus chaos ensued since yesterday and is yet to be resolved as this afternoon.
As a result of the UK’s entire flight-control system collapse, over 200,000 passengers remain stranded in a location they do not wish to be, while over 200 flights out of the UK have been cancelled before 10 am this morning, due to crew and aircraft being out of position.
The incident is described as the worst outage for a decade – with 1,000 flights cancelled and the chaos set to last for DAYS.
The technical glitch which intensely affected Britain’s National Air Traffic Services (NATS), led to the cancellation as at this morning alone, 80 flights operated by EasyJet, and 60 flights by British Airways by 10 am today.
However, an unconfirmed media report says, the fault might have been caused by an incorrectly filed flight plan by a French airline who attempted in vain to change the erroneously filed flight plan.
Moreover, in spite of the over ten network failures being remedied without much success, Passengers have been warned that they may face days of disruptions which could last until Friday.
Also, an easyJet pilot was quoted to have told passengers he had never seen a failure of this magnitude in 20 years of flying.
Among industry close circuits stakeholders, it is believed that the leadership of Britain’s National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is aware of what caused the outage, but not how it disabled the system.
A local newspaper in Dundee described the conditions of passengers at the airports across the UK thus, “The mayhem happened on one of the busiest days of the year, when more than a million people were due to fly out of or land in the UK”.
Britain’s National Air Traffic Services, NATS, had ruled out a cyberattack.
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