Military aircraft reportedly blamed for UK air traffic control outage

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What happened

Meltdown that grounded thousands of flights caused by ‘spurious’ flight data being entered into system, report says The air traffic control outage that caused thousands of flights to be grounded across the UK earlier in the week was caused by a milit…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:04:27 UTC.

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