Control British air (National Air Traffic Services, NATS), located in Swanwick, in south-east England, confirmed that the outage had its facilities. By late afternoon, the agency announced on its website that the system was “ restored .” In the end, the failure lasted only 36 minutes, but the disturbances were likely to be significant until late in the evening, especially in the five London airports have been heavily affected by the incident.
For a long time, no plane could not take off from several major airports, including Heathrow. NATS had previously announced the closure of the airspace before to specify that it was a restriction.
Fifty flights were canceled at Heathrow, said a spokesman, and others may follow. “There will be delays and cancellations to the end of the day tomorrow and some flights could be affected” , he said.
The Air Company France announced that fewer than twenty of its flights were affected by the outage, including seven long-haul.
On December 7, 2013, a failure of the air traffic control Swanwick had already wreaked havoc and caused delays and cancellation of hundreds of flights in the UK.
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