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Dan Kitwood/Getty Images / Thousands of passengers were delayed by the NATS outage An air traffic control system failure that sparked widespread travel chaos earlier this month was caused by a "software defect", the UK's national air traffic service (Nats) has said. The problem happened "in the space of a millisecond", Nats said, leading to the system producing corrupted data. The failure led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers affected, with some sleeping on airport floors or getting stuck overseas. The incident prompted questions over the resilience of Nats' systems, and some airlines questioned the position of its chief executive Martin Rolfe. There has also been anger from passengers about how much support they got from airlines, and about the fact that they are unlikely to be entitled to compensation because the regulator judges the situation was extraordinary circumstances. Flights in and out of the UK's main airports were affected, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Glasgow. The disruption took days to completely resolve because of the number of planes and crew left out of place. The government had previously ruled out a cyber attack, and last week the Ministry of Defence denied a report that a military aircraft was to blame. In an initial report, Nats said the defect happened in the system which "underpins the management of UK airspace". Martin Rolfe said: "I would like to apologise again, very sincerely, to everyone who was affected last week. "It's our job to get people where they want to go, quickly and without delay and we are devastated when that goes wrong. "However, our primary role is to keep our skies safe, and everyone who flies through them. At no point last week was safety in question."

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中文标题： 报告称航班混乱由一毫秒内发生的软件缺陷导致

英国国家空中交通服务局称，本月初引发旅行混乱的空管系统故障由“软件缺陷”导致，发生在一毫秒内，系统产生损坏数据。故障导致超2000架航班取消、数十万乘客受影响，并引发对Nats系统韧性和其首席执行官的质疑。政府此前排除网络攻击，国防部否认军用飞机有关。

  • 情报分类：综合情报
  • 分类依据：航空系统故障的公共事件，无合适专门类别，归综合。
  • 信息来源：英语新闻 / BBC News Top Stories
  • 发布时间：2026/9/18 21:15:59