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Flight Plans, a solo exhibition by local multimedia artist Njaimeh Njie at the Carlow University Art Gallery, encourages Black folks to imagine themselves as aviators.
UK News: A technical failure, not a cyberattack, caused flight delays and cancellations across the UK, according to authorities. The breakdown, which occurred
The UK's air traffic control chief has said that "incorrect" flight data was the cause of the massive disruption that affected thousands of passengers stuck in planes and at airports as hundreds of flights to and from the country were cancelled, with knock-on effects continuing on Wednesday. Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of National Air Traffic Services (NATS) which had faced the "technical issue" that triggered the chaos on Monday, said an initial investigation had found the failure was caused by flight data which its system could not interpret.
An eye on it. we are meant to leave at eight and we will be getting there at four o'clock in the morning. air traffic control services provider nats said a technical issue meant it was having to input flight plans manually. that takes longer, so it had to restrict how many flights could operate. the result, hundreds of delays and cancellations into and out of the uk. the issue was fixed by mid—afternoon, but experts say disruption could last for days. a lot of airlines will have to now look at where they've got their aircraft. they won't be in the place they're supposed to be. they've got to...
Our flight has been scheduled for this afternoon but there are other flights that have been cancelled going into london so we just hope to get out today. in liverpool this morning, passengers were also getting bad news. we'd booked to take the kids to dublin for the day and we got here and were told it's cancelled. we are waiting in line to see if we can find something else. struggling to find a way to fill. in our day until 11 o'clock tonight just the extra cost. the disruption was caused by a technical issue at air traffic control nats, which gives details of planes and their routes which wa...