00:00the issue which happened in the space of a millisecond caused flights both in and out of the uk to
00:06be cancelled impacting on hundreds of thousands of passengers with disruption continuing into the following day
00:12the software which experienced issues usually automatically allocates codes which are used to identify individual aircraft on radar while they
00:24are airborne
00:24writing in the 18-page report nats chief executive martin rolf said that at this stage he could confirm the
00:34incident was not related to a nats outage in 2023 or a radar issue in july last year
00:42nats reiterated in its report that there was no evidence at this stage that the incident was caused by a
00:50malicious actor or a cyber related activity
00:54mr rolf has faced renewed calls for his resignation following the travel disruption which affected airports including heathrow getwick stansted
01:05as well as manchester
01:06the civil aviation authority previously said passengers were unlikely to be entitled to compensation for delays or cancellations that were
01:15directly caused by the incident
01:18the aviation regulators review is due to be published within six months while nats said its own full report will
01:25be completed within 60 days
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