British Airways IT failure caused by 'uncontrolled return of power'

Cause of outage has not been revealed but BA says it was not due to an IT shutdown and was not linked to job outsourcingThe IT shutdown that led to chaos for British Airways was caused by an “uncontrolled return of power” following an outage that physically damaged servers at its data centre, the airline has said. About 75,000 passengers were affected as flights were cancelled following the incident on Saturday morning.Continue reading...