Passenger ‘heartbroken’ at missing Limerick wedding because of air traffic control glitch

'I’m absolutely numb. I’m so upset. I’m heartbroken,' said the woman 

Monica Clare from Brentford, west London, who was onboard an Aer Lingus plane preparing to take off from Heathrow for Shannon, Ireland on Thursday afternoon when the air traffic problem began. Picture: Monica Clare/PA Wire

A woman who will miss a wedding because her flight was cancelled by an air traffic control failure said what happened was “disgraceful”.

Monica Clare, 68, from Brentford, west London, was onboard an Aer Lingus plane preparing to take off from Heathrow for Shannon, Ireland, on Thursday afternoon when the problem began.