Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
6%
1 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
65/100
Evening Standard's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
5
World
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
The National Air Traffic Services is urgently carrying out an investigation to identify what went so disastrously wrong, leading to hundreds of flights being cancelled at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and other airports.
asserted
hundreds → carry → Heathrow
“Our system issue is now resolved, we are operating normally and working as hard as possible to clear the backlog of flights.”
The computer problem meant that flights were stopped from taking off from airports.
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flights → resolve → airports
The impact of this situation led to Heathrow and other airports running out of parking places for planes.
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Heathrow → lead → planes
Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed.
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Hundreds → cancel → flights
NATS did not go into detail about precisely what caused the problem.
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what → go → problem
In August 2023, more than 700,000 passengers experienced disruption when flights were grounded at UK airports when NATS suffered a technical glitch while processing a flight plan.
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NATS → experience → plan
“NATS told us it was a flight planning processing failure, which is exactly the same issue that happened in 2023,” Neal McMahon told Times Radio.
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McMahon → tell → Radio
“If you remember in 2023 there was an issue with a flight plan, and it sent the system in a loop that eventually caused it to shut down.
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it → remember → loop
“We’re told that that was a rogue flight plan and we’re told yesterday this was a spurious flight plan which caused the same outage and our question is like: these things can happen, but where’s the backup systems?”
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systems → tell → outage
“My focus and that of the team has been on both getting our system operating back up normally, which it is now, but there’s obviously a huge tail to the disruption and we’ll be working on that through the course of today,” he told BBC radio on Wednesday.
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he → get → Wednesday
“And then our attention will turn to exactly what’s happened in this particular incident.
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what → turn → incident
“What I will say is I don’t believe we’ve ever seen an incident happen more than once, so this will be something different that we’ve never seen in 50 years of operation.”
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we → say → operation
“Inevitably, things do go wrong in complex systems,” he added.
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he → go → systems
“We had everybody on site, everybody was in the right place.
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everybody → have → place
We had all the engineers in place.
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We → have → place
We had our various partners from software industries all on hand.
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We → have → hand
“So this was resolved as quickly as it could be, but within the limits of making sure that it all stayed safe.”
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it → resolve → limits
His words, though, will do little to defuse the anger of many passengers caught up in the travel chaos.
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words → do → chaos
The Aporia
