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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gwyn Wright

Hundreds of flights estimated to have been cancelled after fault

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Hundreds of thousands of travellers have been left stranded after a major outage hit Britain’s air traffic control system, forcing the cancellation of more than 1,200 flights at the end of the bank holiday weekend.

A “network-wide” failure left controllers having to enter flight details manually, leading to colossal delays and many passengers being stuck on grounded planes for hours on end.

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