NATS CEO confirms no military intervention, unrelated to 2023 outage
1 Sep 18 9:24 AM · 5d ago · 2 articles · 5 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
Martin Rolfe dismissed speculation that the incident was caused by military intervention and clarified that it was unrelated to the major system outage in August 2023. He stated that mitigation measures are in place while a permanent fix undergoes safety testing.
“The issue has been identified and mitigation is in place while a permanent fix is safety tested and deployed.”
Martin Rolfe, NATS CEOMartin Rolfe NATS Chief Executive Officer
Heidi Alexander UK Secretary of State for TransportNATS UK air traffic control service provider
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- NATS Major Incident Preliminary Investigation Report [pdf] HN Frontpage · 5d ago
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Root cause analysis for the air traffic control outage in the UK has been published, for anybody interested. Nothing to do with cybersecurity. It was just a software bug leading to data corruption for a single flight. https://www. nats.aero/news/nats-publishes- preliminary-report-on-technical-incident-of-8-september/
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Looks like it was a bog standard multithreading bug and not a Russian attack this time. https://www. nats.aero/wp-content/uploads/2 026/09/NATS-Preliminary-Investigation-Report-into-NAS-Incident-on-08-Sept-2026-Issued-16-Sept-2026.pdf
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