US grounds all planes causing world wide travel chaos | Millions affected by Microsoft’s outage

Air travel across the United States was brought to a halt for hours after the nation’s aviation authority declared a rare ‘ground stop’. The FAA citing “extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety” due to a telecommunications outage. More than 6,000 flights in the US were cancelled affecting some 1.5 million people.

The White House has ruled out any connection between today’s technical issues that grounded flights and the global outage that affected Microsoft users yesterday. The company has now apologised for the disruption that affected millions of users for around 24 hours.

00:00 Travel chaos – flights resume after the US grounds planes for hours, but delays and cancellations continue.
06:22 Microsoft apologised for the worldwide disruption that affected millions of users for around 24 hours.
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