the problem was fixed early yesterday afternoon. their priority yesterday afternoon. their priority yesterday was to ensure they could continue the air traffic system functioning safely, which meant they used back up systems that had less capacity which is why flights were cancelled. i spoke to the head of the service yesterday to talk through the problem. what they had done to fix it. there will be an independent look at what happened by the civil aviation authority which will report back to me. film; will report back to me. any indication will report back to me. any indication about will report back to me. any indication about what - will report back to me. any indication about what might have caused the problem? speculation it might have been hacking. it caused the problem? speculation it might have been hacking. might have been hacking. it was a technical issue might have been hacking. it was a technical issue with might have been hacking. it was a technical issue with th
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a bad place to be stuck. everyone is very calm on board currently. so we are pretty good here. and what about the information we ve kind got so far? there s air traffic control, you know, digital systems, technical issues, we don t know much more than that. so i m actually a former air traffic controller and the outage is affecting both centres in the uk, so there s one at swanwick and one in prestwick in scotland. and it s actually the flight planning system. so each aircraft, for the controller to be able to handle it, they need to have the information about, you know, what is the flight number, where is it going? and all that is presented to them on their screen. now, if the flight planning system goes down, they have four hours worth of data stored but after that point they have to go manual, and as far as we can tell, they have now not been able to fix the failure from earlier this morning and they have gone manual, which is what s causing the delays. what is likely to happen now
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