Originally Posted by
eglnyt
CAA has issued an Interim Report available from the News section at the bottom of its Home Page
'Rob Bishton, Chief Executive of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, added: “The UK Air Traffic Control system is vital to the safe and efficient management of millions of air journeys each year. [very true]“This interim report helps with the understanding of what went wrong, what worked well in response to this, and importantly what action can be taken to improve the UK’s aviation system for the future."' [Hmmm]
That's pretty disingenuous in what's turning into an Orwellian masterclass in obfuscation. The one thing that's very clear, NATS doesn't ever want to let into the public domain what really went wrong, and how they messed up.
What has happened, in the interim, is a major realisation of how serious this 'single point of failure' type incident could be in a future with 10x more aircraft, mostly drones, in the next decade, with organisations like Think now saying many more. Yet another repeat of this incident could lead to truly catastrophic outcomes, especially for all of those aircraft not 'manually handled' by controllers, and certainly not just the 700,000 delayed flights this incident caused.