英国空中交通管制系统故障引发大规模航班延误

英国空中交通管制服务机构Nats于周二下午1时46分报告了一起技术故障1，导致全国多个主要机场出现航班大规模延误和取消。受影响的机场包括伦敦希思罗机场、盖特威克机场、斯坦斯特德机场、伦敦城市机场、曼彻斯特机场、贝尔法斯特城市机场、伯明翰机场和爱丁堡机场1。根据报道，约有近300班航班被取消3。

出发航班从下午2时起受到影响1，而到达航班并未受到影响2。Nats表示工程师已赶赴现场处理这一航班处理系统问题，并在声明中表示："我们为这将对乘客出行造成的延误表示歉意，乘客应与航空公司核实其航班状态。"1该技术故障约3小时后得到解决3。Nats指出"航班仍在起飞，空域开放，但恢复需要时间"2。预计这一事件的连锁影响将持续至周三3，多个机场建议乘客直接联系航空公司了解最新航班信息1。

A technical malfunction in the UK's national air traffic control system on Tuesday afternoon triggered widespread flight disruptions across the country.12 The issue was reported at 1:46 p.m., with departure delays beginning at 2 p.m.1 Nats, the state-owned air traffic control service, confirmed that engineers were deployed to address the problem and stated that "flights are still departing and airspace is open, but recovery will take some time."2 The technical fault was resolved within approximately three hours.3

Multiple major airports were affected by the outage, including London Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and Belfast City Airport.12 The disruption impacted roughly 300 flights, which were either delayed or cancelled.3 Inbound flights remained unaffected, while the knock-on effects of the disruption were expected to continue into Wednesday.23 Nats advised passengers to check directly with their airlines for updates on flight status and apologized for the delays caused by the incident.1