Twice in a single fortnight, Britain's air traffic control system faltered — grounding thousands of flights, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers, and exposing what may be a deeper fragility at the heart of critical national infrastructure. The incidents, the fourth and fifth in two years, have forced a reckoning with a question that transcends any single software flaw or connectivity error: whether the systems societies build to move people safely through the sky are receiving the care and investment their complexity demands. An independent review is underway, but reviews take time,
UK air traffic control failures raise systemic concerns amid mounting pressure
Hundreds of thousands of passengers affected across multiple incidents; some left sleeping on airport floors, others stranded in foreign airports.