UK airports systems failure down to a computer code written 25…
An unprecedented systems failure at the UK’s national air traffic control centre involving computer code written a quarter of a century ago was responsible for widespread disruption at British airports, it has emerged.
Richard Deakin, chief executive of Nats, the company responsible for controlling British airspace, said the software glitch was “buried” among millions of lines of code at the site in Swanwick, Hampshire.
Passengers faced travel chaos as dozens of flights at airports around the…

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Author: Western Daily Press