Air traffic control engineers were working from home during meltdown – inquiry
A review of the August bank holiday air traffic control (ATC) meltdown has highlighted a “significant lack of pre-planning” and engineers being allowed to work from home.
Nearly 750,000 passengers were disrupted when flights were grounded at UK airports on August 28 last year after ATC provider National Air Traffic Services (Nats) suffered a technical glitch while processing a flight plan.
An interim report from an inquiry found there does not appear to have been “any multi-agency rehearsal of the management of an incident of this nature and scale”.
It is clear there is
