Computer malfunctioning caused delay or cancellation of flights to and from UK.
The fault occurred at the main air traffic control centre of Swanwick.
Due to air traffic restrictions, departures from Luton airport have been postponed.
It is been advised that passengers should contact their airline before traveling to the airport. Flight arrivals too are subjected to face delay.
Heathrow airport too has reported disorder on all flights because of technical problems.
The Control Flow Management Unit at Eurocontrol in Brussels confirmed that London Area Control Centre (LACC), that covers whole of south east of England has a computer malfunction.
The LACC is still operational, but because to heavy and additional work load have restricted departures.
The root cause of the failure is malfunctioning with computers that deal with details about flights when they are at higher altitudes. The impact is reduction in air traffic in south east of England and planes leaving from Heathrow are after every five minutes instead of 90 seconds.
The Air Traffic Controllers finding hard time identifying the planes though it can be seen.
British Airways have cancelled some short haul flights to domestic and European destinations from Heathrow.
Airport authority have advised passengers to contact airlines before travelling.
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This post was written by Kevin on September 25, 2008
