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What happened? Flights out of Edinburgh Airport were suspended on Friday morning due to a technical issue with air traffic control operator ANS.

What are the details? The outage caused widespread disruption: some flights were cancelled, others delayed or diverted, and passengers were reportedly stuck on planes on the tarmac for hours. Flights have now resumed.

‌Which flights were affected?

‌Turkish Airlines TK1343 from Istanbul diverted to Manchester.

Ryanair RK596 from Stansted arrived at Glasgow Prestwick

Aer Lingus flight to Dublin departed over an hour late

United Airlines flight to Newark, NYC left 1 hour 14 minutes after its scheduled time.

Some easyJet flights were cancelled.

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What have officials said? Edinburgh Airport confirmed the IT

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