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  "id": 8269730,
  "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",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-18T15:45:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/flight-chaos-affecting-hundreds-of-thousands-caused-in-millisecond-by-software-error-uk"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Error first occurred at 10am but major incident was not declared until 12.30pm, says report Business live – latest updates A software defect in part of the UK’s air traffic control system corrupted flight data “in the space of a millisecond”, leading to a six-hour outage and mass airline cancellations and delays across the UK last week, National Air Traffic Services has said. But ministers said…",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "People Daily Kenya",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-09-18T15:05:47.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}