London Airspace closed !

Russel Bland just plugged his hairdryer in

nutters about saying its because of a terror plots

Is it in the cloud?

London airspace has been closed until 19:00 GMT after a computer failure, air traffic controllers have said.

The news was announced in a brief message on flight safety body Eurocontrol's website.

UK air traffic controllers Nats confirmed a "technical problem" at its Swanwick control centre in Hampshire.

It said in a statement "every possible action" was being taken to resolve the problem.

London's airports reported:

at Heathrow Airport flights were "currently experiencing delays" and planes could be turned away
Incoming flights to Gatwick are continuing to land and all departing flights grounded
Stansted say it is currently working with Nats to find out how it will affect the airport
Eurocontrol said: "There has been a failure of the flight data computer server at London ACC [area control centre].

"Engineers are working on the problem and more information will be given when available."

Could be Russian state hack attack !

Either that or Tommy Toes has plugged in his printer.

shocking outage, something has gone badly wrong here. Be interesting if it ever comes out

how can they not have generators as back up ?

even tesco have back up generators.

Just switch it off and on again imo

It worked in Die Hard 2, and that was around xmas as well.

UKIP will blame the delays on immigration

Some Lithuanian been a bit pick-axe happy !

Rebecca Williams on Beeb News

Nick

Or give it a tap with a broom handle.

run by Serco

Hell of a lot of Planes showing/flying over London on FlightRadar  -

Are they all 'flying blind'? ........... Of course they AREN'T.

privatisation in practice