The Fault Lasted a Millisecond. The Recovery Took Days.
On 8 September, a defect in the software that allocates radar identification codes to aircraft over the UK lasted, by NATS’ own account, a matter of milliseconds. Controllers lost the ability to tell which blip on their screens belonged to which flight without switching to manual coordination, and restrictions went on across the whole of
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