{"id":13776,"date":"2025-08-04T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:05:18","slug":"bug-de-software-lanca-o-caos-no-trafego-aereo-britanico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/bug-de-software-lanca-o-caos-no-trafego-aereo-britanico\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Bug Unleashes Chaos on British Air Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"13776\" class=\"elementor elementor-13776\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6e368fa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"6e368fa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b122b8c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b122b8c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"39\" data-end=\"192\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">No final do passado m\u00eas de julho,\u00a0um erro de <em>software<\/em> nos sistemas de radar da National Air Traffic Services (NATS), no centro de controlo de Swanwick, Hampshire, levou ao encerramento tempor\u00e1rio do espa\u00e7o a\u00e9reo sobre a Inglaterra e Pa\u00eds de Gales, provocando uma suspens\u00e3o geral dos voos por cerca de 20 a 60 minutos.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">Apesar da r\u00e1pida resolu\u00e7\u00e3o t\u00e9cnica \u2014 com a NATS a ativar um sistema secund\u00e1rio em cerca de 20 minutos \u2014 os efeitos desse apag\u00e3o seguiram-se durante horas, com congestionamentos de aeronaves e tripula\u00e7\u00f5es desalinhadas para retomar as opera\u00e7\u00f5es normais.<\/span><\/p><p data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"347\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">Mais de 150 voos foram cancelados, e estima-se que tenha afetado mais\u00a0de meio milh\u00e3o de passageiros. <\/span><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">A Secret\u00e1ria de Estado dos Transportes, Heidi Alexander, convocou o CEO da NATS, Martin Rolfe, para explicar o sucedido e garantir medidas preventivas para o futuro<\/span>. <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">A Ryanair exigiu a demiss\u00e3o de Rolfe, afirmando que falhas anteriores \u2014 incluindo uma em agosto de 2023 que afetou cerca de 700 mil passageiros \u2014 n\u00e3o serviram de li\u00e7\u00e3o<\/span>. <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">Especialistas e opositores pol\u00edticos pedem uma investiga\u00e7\u00e3o governamental independente sobre a resili\u00eancia da infraestrutura de controlo a\u00e9reo do pa\u00eds<\/span>.<\/p><p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"589\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">Embora os sistemas de emerg\u00eancia tenham garantido que n\u00e3o houve nenhum ataque cibern\u00e9tico, nem risco para a seguran\u00e7a dos voos, o incidente deu visibilidade \u00e0s fragilidades latentes nos sistemas centrais de controle de tr\u00e1fego e refor\u00e7ou a urg\u00eancia de moderniza\u00e7\u00e3o e planos de conting\u00eancia mais robustos.<\/span><\/p><p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"589\">\u00a0<\/p><p>O artigo original via <i>The Telegraph <\/i>pode ser lido <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/07\/30\/air-traffic-control-failure-airport-disruption-cancellation\/\">aqui<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of July, a software error in the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) radar systems at the control center in Swanwick, Hampshire, led to the temporary closure of the airspace over England and Wales, causing a general suspension of flights for around 20 to 60 minutes. Despite the rapid technical resolution - with NATS activating a secondary system in around 20 minutes - the effects of this blackout continued for hours, with aircraft jams and crews scrambling to resume normal operations. More than 150 flights were canceled, and it is estimated to have affected more than half a million passengers. The Secretary of State for Transport, Heidi Alexander, summoned the CEO of NATS, Martin Rolfe, to explain what had happened and guarantee preventive measures for the future. Ryanair has demanded Rolfe's resignation, claiming that previous failures - including one in August 2023 that affected around 700,000 passengers - have not served as a lesson. Experts and political opponents are calling for an independent government investigation into the resilience of the country's air traffic control infrastructure. Although emergency systems assured that there had been no cyber-attack, nor any risk to flight safety, the incident gave visibility to latent weaknesses in central traffic control systems and reinforced the urgency of modernization and more robust contingency plans.   The original article via The Telegraph can be read here.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destaque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pstqb.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}