Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown
by mannykannot on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:16PM
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> If they asked a flight to divert, that may open multiple other cans of worms.
Any ATC system has to be resilient enough to handle a diversion on account of things like bad weather, mechanical failure or a medical emergency. In fact, I would think the diversion of one aircraft would be less of a problem than those caused by bad weather. Furthermore, I would guess that the mitigation would be just to manually direct the flight according to the accepted flight plan.
One of the many problems here is that they could not identify the problematic flight plan for hours, and only with the assistance of the vendor's engineers. Another is that the system had immediately foreclosed on that option anyway, by shutting down.
Any ATC system has to be resilient enough to handle a diversion on account of things like bad weather, mechanical failure or a medical emergency. In fact, I would think the diversion of one aircraft would be less of a problem than those caused by bad weather. Furthermore, I would guess that the mitigation would be just to manually direct the flight according to the accepted flight plan.
One of the many problems here is that they could not identify the problematic flight plan for hours, and only with the assistance of the vendor's engineers. Another is that the system had immediately foreclosed on that option anyway, by shutting down.