Air Traffic Control "Telephone Glitch" Delays Hundreds of UK Flights

First time accepted submitter biodata writes "The BBC is reporting that hundreds of UK commercial air flights have been delayed for most of Saturday due to an internal telephone systems problem in the National Air Traffic Control Service, and delays are likely to continue into the evening. A spokesperson said that it was a different software bug from the one which grounded flights in the summer."

oh, editorial control

[richlv]

"difficult software bug from the one which grounded flights"

well, spellchecker did not complain, so we're all set...