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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Georgia Bates

MoD denies ‘military jet’ error caused air traffic control outage

Passengers at Heathrow Airport in west London during disruption after a system issue hit air traffic provider Nats (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Ministry of Defence has denied making any errors amid reports that data entered by a military jet was behind the air traffic control system failure which threw UK airports into chaos.

A technical issue at National Air Traffic Services (Nats) on Tuesday led to more than 2,000 flights arriving or departing the UK to be cancelled, and the disruption continued into Wednesday.

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