Air traffic control failure an isolated incident, says UK minister after meeting

Heidi Alexander summoned under-fire head of Nats to discuss disruption that led to more than 150 cancelled flightsBusiness live – latest updatesThe technical failure that led to hundreds of flights being cancelled or delayed on Wednesday was an “isolated event” with “no evidence of malign activity”, the transport secretary has said, after summoning the head of the UK air traffic control service, Nats, to account for the disruption.Heidi Alexander said she met Martin Rolfe, the under-fire chief executive of Nats, to understand what happened and what could be done to prevent a reoccurrence in the future after more than 150 flights were cancelled and others delayed by the latest glitch. Continue reading...

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