Nats fallen over again

[Mojo]

Seems like part of the UK ATC system has fallen over again, with some airports having no departures for a while but with operations now resumed and heavily limited. Flightradar shows planes at Heathrow still at the gate 4 hours after they should have departed, plus many planes on the ground still waiting for gates over 2 hours after landing.

Nats have issued a statement saying they are aware of what the issue is, and are still working to fix it.

Technical issue causing some disruption to flight departures - NATS

NATS provides safe and efficient air traffic services and innovative solutions to UK and international airports, airlines and governments.

www.nats.aero

We have identified that the issue was in our flight processing system. Our engineers are on site and working urgently to resume normal operations as quickly as possible. We recognise the ongoing disruption to travel, for which we sincerely apologise. Flights are still departing and airspace is open, but recovery will take some time. We will provide further updates as soon as possible.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Seems like part of the UK ATC system has fallen over again, with some airports having no departures for a while but with operations now resumed and heavily limited. Flightradar shows planes at Heathrow still at the gate 4 hours after they should have departed, plus many planes on the ground still waiting for gates over 2 hours after landing.

The obvious possibility here is that a certain vodka drinking nation might have been busy...

 

[rmHawk765]

The obvious possibility here is that a certain vodka drinking nation might have been busy...

You could be a little less discriminatory of the actual people of that country... as here, they don't exactly choose what their government gets up to.

Also, if this was a cyberattack it would've been all over the news and that certain nation would be blamed faster than anyone can make a reasonable assumption of what/who executed it.

 

[speedy1]

Most won't believe the many, many attacks on infrastructure were Russia unless there is a verified signed document by Putin saying "I did it - Yours, Putin".

edit: Crazy how many people refuse to accept we're in a hybrid war with Russia and have been for a long time. Yes I know there are other causes for things

 

[Bletchleyite]

You could be a little less discriminatory of the actual people of that country... as here, they don't exactly choose what their government gets up to.

To be honest I think that is so obvious that it would be a waste of wear on my keyboard to state it explicitly

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Most won't believe the many, many attacks on infrastructure were Russia unless there is a verified signed document by Putin saying "I did it - Yours, Putin".

edit: Crazy how many people refuse to accept we're in a hybrid war with Russia and have been for a long time. Yes I know there are other causes for things

Well, quite. We clearly are, and this sort of thing has a very high chance of being some sort of cyberattack.

 

[rf_ioliver]

We clearly are, and this sort of thing has a very high chance of being some sort of cyberattack.

Extremely unlikely given how the NATS system is architected.

The last major failure was due to a route parsing error: https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail/ so much more likely to be some software edge case or hardware failure than anything else.