24 HERE WE GO...UK airspace chaos explained: How a 'huge network failure' has sparked delays for thousands travellers - so could a CYBERATTACK be to blame? (www.dailymail.co.uk) posted 1 year ago by swampbeast 1 year ago by swampbeast +25 / -1 UK airspace chaos explained - so could a CYBERATTACK be to blame? NATS - the national air traffic controllers - issued a statement at 15:15 BST to confirm that engineers had 'identified and remedied the technical issue'. 8 comments share 8 comments share save hide report block hide replies
The outage took place on a Monday.
So my best guess (because it happens time and time again) is that NATS did a software upgrade over the weekend which they completely screwed up because they hadn't done enough testing.
Sorry, cockup - not conspiracy (Russia or otherwise!).
not a particularly strong case you've made here tho