Eurocontrol network outage delays thousands of flights
European air traffic management organisation Eurocontrol has resumed normal operations following a software misalignment that caused its Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System to fail for several hours April 3, causing delays to thousands of flights in Europe. “The trigger event was an incorrect link between the testing of a new software release and the live operations system; this led to the deletion of all current flight plans on the live system. We are confident that there was no outside interference,” Eurocontrol said April 4. The air traffic management organisation, which serves as Europe’s “network manager,” could not immediately say how many flights were delayed by the outage of the capacity/demand-balancing system. It had said earlier that it expected 29,500 flights within Europe, and that half could be delayed. <br/>
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Eurocontrol network outage delays thousands of flights
European air traffic management organisation Eurocontrol has resumed normal operations following a software misalignment that caused its Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System to fail for several hours April 3, causing delays to thousands of flights in Europe. “The trigger event was an incorrect link between the testing of a new software release and the live operations system; this led to the deletion of all current flight plans on the live system. We are confident that there was no outside interference,” Eurocontrol said April 4. The air traffic management organisation, which serves as Europe’s “network manager,” could not immediately say how many flights were delayed by the outage of the capacity/demand-balancing system. It had said earlier that it expected 29,500 flights within Europe, and that half could be delayed. <br/>
