And “technical problem “ detected in an air control center near London on Wednesday affected all flights that leave the United Kingdom and caused delays in much of the country’s airports.
After the National Air Traffic Service (NATS) said that an un specified technical failure had forced to paralyze all aircraft takeoffs in the country, at 16.30 local time (same GMT time) announced that its engineers They had managed to restore the “affected system” and were in the process of resuming operations normally.
Minutes later, London Gatwick airport reported in its X account that the flights had come out again, but that Delays will be recorded in some of its operations.
The British air traffic agency reported that, after the aerial problem, it would limit the number of aircraft that fly over the London control area for security reasons.
Other airports of the British capital such as Heathrow or Stansted also notified that they had been affected by the technical incident, as well as other airfields in the country such as Manchester, Birmingham or Edimburg (Scotland).
The effects of the incident were noted among the passengers who had planned to fly from the United Kingdom on Wednesday, such as the Argentine Carlos Gil, who flew from Heathrow to Bilbao and told EFE that had been delayed in his plane on the London track for more than an hour and a half.
The crew informed Gil that there had been a problem with the radar and that a delay of at least three hours was foreseen, since despite the fact that the incident seems resolved, there is still a “Long air queue” Waiting to take off. It is not the last serious incident in British commercial aviation in recent months.
A fire in an electrical substation forced on March 21 at the close of the Heathrow London airport, the most traffic in Europe, during much of the day, which forced to cancel more than 1,300 flights and to divert numerous airplanes to other airports of the United Kingdom or continental Europe.
