UK air traffic control system successfully completes third once-in-a-generation failure in three years | NewsThump
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UK air traffic control has pulled off the impressive hat-trick of three 'once-in-a-generation' collapses in three years, each one helpfully breaking in a brand-new way to prove nobody just forgot to fix the last one. Simon Williams, aviation history's luckiest witness, notes that at the current rate of lesson-learning, NATS will soon be the most educated disaster in British infrastructure history.
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Britain's air traffic control system is clearly committed to an ambitious programme of 'unprecedented' failures, and we should all appreciate the sheer variety of ways it's finding to be catastrophically resilient.
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