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We continue to cover breaking news out of london. a power outage closed air space over the entire city. as a matter of fact, apparently it's been affecting heathrow mostly. but i want to bring in tom costello who covers aviation and keir simons. >> i suspect some will be repetition. we know the main air traffic control system experienced a big computer failure. they're talking about closing that air space or keeping it closed until 1900 time -- 2:00 or so on the east coast. it's a major air traffic controller center. it covers about 5,000 flights a

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London acc it has a computer failure affecting air traffic. air born traffic will continue to be accepted however no departure traffic into london acc will be released in europe. this this will include any departures out of or through london acc to north america. departures from north america are not in any stops to or through the london acc at this time. that means planes from the united states and north america can leave to go to london but if you're in london wanting to come back to the united states -- >> not happening right now. >> not happening right now. this don't seem like a dangerous...

Backup for the computer. system. and euro control is telling us it's a computer failure so we need to get to the bottom of that. has there been a shortening of the computer system that led to a power outage as well? nonetheless, they're taking this seriously in the sense they want to close the airspace for a number of hours to make sure they get this system back up and running. they have to test it once they get back up and running. i remember during the ash cloud which closed the airspace in 2010, even though they decided it was time to get planes in the air, they were testing for many, many ...

If this is affecting all the airports around the capital of the u.k. then that is a very serious issue for them. anyway clearly the amount of traffic will be causing huge problems. even if they are being able to redistrict them. jose, i don't know if you have done this. if you stand next to the airport and watch, much like jfk or other major airports in the states you can see those planes coming in one after another giving, you know, a matter of, you know, 60 seconds between each landing or take off. so things can start to go wrong quickly. at the moment it appears the computer failure means t...