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  "id": 8267759,
  "title": "Flight delays linked to software problem lasting a millisecond, report says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/flight-delays-linked-to-software-problem-lasting-a-millisecond-report",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-18T15:05:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/flight-delays-linked-to-software-problem-lasting-a-millisecond-report-says"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An air traffic control failure that caused widespread travel chaos earlier this month was triggered by a software defect affecting the system used to manage UK airspace, the national air traffic service Nats has said. The problem happened “in the space of a millisecond”, causing the system to produce corrupted data. The failure led to […]",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "Flight chaos for hundreds of thousands was caused in ‘millisecond’ by software error",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/flight-chaos-for-hundreds-of-thousands-was-caused-in-millisecond-by",
        "published": "2026-09-18T15:45:18.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}