The Papers: 'Military jet tripped chaos' and 'A failure for dying people'

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Source: BBC News
Published: 2026-09-12 10:52 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Transport, Defence, Europe, Military & Defence, Economy & Finance, Elections, World News, Business & Economy, War & Conflict
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The weekend edition of the Financial Times reports that a military aircraft entering "spurious" flight data into air traffic control led to a system outage that grounded thousands of planes this week. Four sources have told the paper that a flight plan submitted by a military aircraft led to a shutdown of British skies for several hours, causing a "meltdown" within the wider air traffic control system.
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