British air trafic control glitch resolved

The UK’s main air traffic control centre was back to full operation tonight after engineers fixed a computer glitch that saw scores of flights cancelled and delayed.

The problem started just before 4pm today when a fault occurred at one of the systems at Swanwick Air Traffic Control Centre in Hampshire.

This led air traffic control company NATS to restrict the number of planes entering UK airspace as well as those taking off from major UK airports causing serious disruption.

However, a NATS spokesman said that the problem was resolved and the centre was “full steam ahead” at 7pm.