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Flight chaos for hundreds of thousands was caused in ‘millisecond’ by software error

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UK ministers say report into incident leaves questions unanswered over why problem was not discovered and fixed earlier Business live – latest updates A software defect in part of the UK’s air traffic control system corrupted flight data “in the spac…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:28:16 UTC.

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