Malor had a domino effect.
According to a preliminary report by the UK air navigation services provider, two points with the same name on a submitted flight plan, but separated by about 7,500 kilometers, reportedly caused an IT system crash last week. Airportal.hu.
According to the newspaper article, the chain of events that led to its collapse began before 4 a.m. local time, when an unnamed airline submitted a flight plan over the country’s airspace to Eurocontrol, which automatically referred it to air navigation service providers in the affected airspace. .
Despite the fact that the two waypoints with the same name were outside UK airspace, the software was unable to process the flight plan, resulting in a domino effect that caused both the direct and standby systems to malfunction, the article said.
For this reason, the capacity of the entire airspace had to be limited at 11 a.m., which led to significant delays and flight cancellations, especially for flights departing from the country’s airports, but also affected flights arriving there and those passing through the airspace. Just. The system was restored by 6:00 pm, but due to the ripple effects of the turbulence, a large number of flights had to be canceled the next day as well, and delays also occurred.
In his reaction, which he posted on Twitter michael o’leary, The head of Ryanair issued strong criticism of the report, which he said greatly underestimated the number of canceled and significantly delayed flights due to the error, and called for strikes.
