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Too many eggs
Not enough baskets
Statistics say that flying is one of the safest ways to travel. That’s assuming you can get off the ground in the first place.
Edinburgh Airport in Scotland recently suspended all flights one morning due to an IT failure in air traffic control. This is Scotland’s largest airport, handling 43,000 flights a day to 155 potential destinations The air traffic control is run by Air Navigation Solutions (ANSL)
In July of this year there was an air traffic control outage nationwide when more than 150 flights were cancelled and this for a problem which only lasted twenty minutes but covered several airports
Air traffic in the UK is generally run by National Air Traffic Services (NATS) and these cover 15 of the UK’s major airports. The July problem was similar to one the previous August, which affected more than 700,000 customers. Both incidents were put down to a technical issue. NATS stated at the time that neither incident was cyber related.
Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage in October 2025 affecting more than 1000 companies and 6.5 million uses including Snapchat, Fortnite, Amazon Prime Video, and Alexa. This was put down to a technical issue with a Domain Name Server (DNS)
DNS is referred to as the Internet’s telephone book You ask for a site and the system looks for…
