Engineer took 90 minutes to restart computer that caused bank holiday flight chaos, ‘damning’ report finds
by Simon Calder
Mar 14, 2024
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The engineer who was rostered to oversee the UK’s air-traffic control system on the August bank holiday last year was at home when both the main and back-up computers failed.
A report has revealed it took 90 minutes for the staff member to reach work and start to fix the failed Nats flight system.
More than 700,000 passengers were hit by the failure of the UK’s air-traffic control system on one of the busiest days of the decade.
At 8.32am on Monday 28 August, the UK’s air-traffic
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