NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September

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While a manual request for an aircraft code was being processed, the system received a message for a higher priority activity which resulted in the aircraft code request being paused. When processing of the aircraft code request resumed, the software defect meant it did not resume correctly and the resulting output was corrupted, and affected some subsequent flight data updates.

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