UK Air Traffic Grounding
June 3, 2004

U.K. Air Traffic Systems Failure Grounds Flights

Most flights from airports in the United Kingdom were suspended Thursday after a massive air traffic control systems (search) failure, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported. All flights from London´s Heathrow Airport (search) were suspended, a Reuters reporter said. The BBC reported that the computer systems at the Manchester and Bristol airports were operational again. The cause of the failure was not immediately known.