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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Rosie Shead

Flight disruption ‘not caused by any incorrect actions’ – report

Passengers queueing at Gatwick Airport during the disruption (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

An air traffic control issue which led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled was caused by a software defect and not by “any incorrect actions”, an investigation has found.

A preliminary report into the incident on September 8 was published by the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) on Friday, who said it was the result of a fault in the software that allocates codes to individual aircraft.

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