Flighty Fiascos: What This Week's Chaos Says About Our Reliance on Tech The UK's air travel system has been severely disrupted by a computer glitch at National Air Traffic Control (Nats), which has canceled over 1,300 flights and affected tens of thousands of passengers.
The scale of the disruption raises fundamental questions about our reliance on technology in critical infrastructure.
The immediate cause of the chaos was a technical issue at Nats, which provides air traffic control services to 15 UK airports.