A radar problem used within the UK's air traffic control system caused chaos at airports in the UK and beyond on Wednesday.

The fault lasted a mere 20 minutes, but was enough to ground planes across the country, causing 150 flight cancellations and delays that have continued into Thursday.

So, what went wrong with this vital piece of air traffic technology?

NATS, which is partly owned by the government, manages all of the UK's airspace for flights arriving and departing the country's airports.

It has not provided lots of detail on Wednesday's outage other than saying there was "radar-related issue which was resolved by quickly switching to the back-up system".