Article: Flights disrupted after air traffic control crash

William Green

Transport Correspondent

SCORES of flights were cancelled or delayed yesterday after the country's air traffic control system crashed and brought chaos to airports.

Queues built up at airport check-in desks after the National Air Traffic Services' (Nats) system failed at 6am yesterday and disruption continued throughout the day, even though it was running again within an hour.

One flight was cancelled at Leeds Bradford Airport with delays ranging from 10 to 45 minutes, while 100 flights were held up by up to more than an hour at Manchester Airport.

At Humberside Airport two early morning flights were delayed by an hour and re-routed to prevent any further hold-up, with some ...

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