Holidaymakers could be facing days of travel chaos after a tech glitch led to the grounding of flights across the UK yesterday.
Several major airports were forced to stop flights taking off and landing because of a system outage in the air traffic control (ATC) network, operated by Nats (National Air Traffic Services).
Passengers were left sleeping on the floors of airports as more than 150 flights were cancelled, with disruption expected to continue for multiple days as airlines work to restore their services to normal.
However, it is still not clear what caused the technical glitch in the ATC system - which took 20 minutes to resolve.
It is understood that the ATC system shut down when radar systems at Nats' Swanwick control centre in Hampshire stopped displaying flights at around 2.30pm.
This forced controllers to stop accepting new flights coming into UK airspace.
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