UK air traffic control outage to cause chaos for days

The UK government on Tuesday said that though the air traffic control “technical issue” that led to the severe disruption of hundreds of flights and left thousands of passengers stranded has been resolved, routes will continue to be affected as airlines scramble to recover from the domino effect on their schedules.

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However, Transport Secretary Mark Harper stressed that the air traffic control outage behind the chaos on Monday was not caused by a “cybersecurity incident”.

UK Transport Secretary Mark Harper said that while the “technical issue” has been resolved, flights will continue to be affected as airlines scramble to recover from the domino effect on their schedules and accommodate stranded passengers on alternate flights.

As the spectre of a hacking attempt was raised across social media, the minister also dismissed that as a factor behind one of the worst air system failures seen in the country in at least a decade.

“Something on this scale hasn’t happened for almost a decade – normally the system works very well,” Harper told ‘Sky News’.