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Did blunder by French airline spark air traffic meltdown? Officials probe if a single badly filed travel plan caused UK’s entire flight- control system to collapse in worst outage for a decade – with 1,000 flights cancelled and chaos set to last DAYS GATWICK MANCHESTER Officials are probing whether a single badly filed travel plan by a French airline was behind today’s air traffic control meltdown which resulted in thousands of cancelled flights during the worst outage in more than a decade. Experts have warned that disruption is set to continue into the week despite the ‘network failure’ that left thousands of holidaymakers stranded being ‘remedied’ on Monday afternoon. Almost 1,000 flights were grounded and cancelled with several more delayed as air travel descended into chaos. The mayhem happened on one of the busiest days in the year, when