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UK Air traffic control network crash

by woodylondon on 8/28/23, 11:22 AM with 23 comments

• by woodylondon on 8/29/23, 12:58 PM

  According to unconfirmed reports, a French airline entered a flight plan incorrectly, resulting in some form of data corruption. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-one-badly-filed-fligh...

  NATs has reported that the system is now back up and running. It is possible that the secondary system took over with data syncing having to take place before the switchover?

  My original post was about my interest in the technical aspects of redundancy and failover mechanisms in something as mission-critical as air traffic control.

  I come from a background in broadcasting, where failover is critical, and redundancy is built into any broadcast chain. e have multiple backups and jumping-off points to deal with any issues that arise. It's pretty rare we could ever go to “black”.

• by OBFUSCATED on 8/28/23, 3:01 PM

  Russian attack, similar to the one in Poland last week? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66630260.amp

• by gumballindie on 8/29/23, 12:00 AM

  I am genuinely convinced that the UK is in collapse. The nhs is flattened, policing is meh, the infrastructure is pretty banged up, bills are through the roof, inflation and interest rates are mad high, and now this. Not to mention a noticeable drop in service quality throughout the private sector, with everyone blaming “staff shortage” and a government desperate to suppress the very same wages that are meant to attract more qualified staff. Seriously this is madness.

• by woodylondon on 8/28/23, 11:24 AM

  How is this even possible in this day and age? The Redundancy for this must be crazy

• by pdx_flyer on 8/28/23, 10:43 PM

  Lots of US bound traffic took very southerly routings today to avoid UK airspace. My guess is that this will continue until the outage is completely resolved.