00:00Travelers across the UK just had their week ruined by a computer glitch.
00:03A technical fault in the country's National Air Traffic Control System
00:07triggered mass flight cancellations,
00:10with tracking data showing around 1,300 flights scrapped in a single day.
00:14And another once 11 canceled the day after.
00:17The failure hit a core flight data processing system,
00:20and the worst affected airports were Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, and Birmingham.
00:25Some passengers actually boarded their planes,
00:27only to sit on the tarmac for hours before being told to get off again.
00:32Others ended up sleeping on the terminal floor
00:34after their flights vanished from the board entirely.
00:37One couple bound for Iceland described spending more than four hours stuck on board
00:42before disembarking, then bedding down at the gate.
00:45The company behind the system has apologized
00:47and admitted it's taking longer than expected to get everything back to normal,
00:52with a full investigation now promised into exactly what went wrong.
00:56Disclosure. This video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced
01:00using AI-assisted tools.
