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Air traffic fault at Prestwick delays Scotland flights again

The UK’s air traffic control provider said the Prestwick fault had nothing to do with the failure on 8 September, which a preliminary report traced to a software defect.

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Air traffic fault at Prestwick delays Scotland flights again
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Millisecond software fault caused UK flight chaos, NATS says

NATS said a preliminary report found the defect took about one millisecond to trigger, disrupting more than 2,000 flights and affecting hundreds of thousands of passenger

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The air traffic control tower at London Heathrow airport