Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.

分析家们担心超出承受能力的空中交通控制系统会接近爆点。

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The volume of scheduled flights is straining the air traffic control system.

定期航班的数量使空中交通控制系统受到压力。

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In an air traffic system that operates near capacity, any delays in one region tend to spread like ripples and trigger delays elsewhere.

在一个接近饱和状态的空中交通系统中，某一区域的任何延误都会像波浪一样传播并触发其它区域的航班延误。

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But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).

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Take the chaos that has engulfed Brazil's airports for the past six months, the result of a creaking air-traffic control system operated by disgruntled air-force staff.

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Actual flight performance has gotten more unpredictable because of problems in the air-traffic control system.

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