1,100 flights are canceled in the United States as a Microsoft outage disrupts operations.
By Anuradha
Many airports around the United States faced unanticipated disruption, with over 1,100 flights cancelled and over 1,700 flights operating behind schedule on Friday morning (local time), following the outage of various Microsoft cloud services.
Air travellers across the United States experienced delays, and several airlines halted flight operations, when Microsoft-based computers failed to function during a global outage on Friday.
Many airports around the United States faced unanticipated disruption, with over 1,100 flights cancelled and over 1,700 flights operating behind schedule on Friday morning (local time), following the outage of various Microsoft cloud services.
People flying to and from several airports across the United States were inconvenienced by these interruptions, with many expressing irritation over unexpected flight delays and cancellations.
"No one here knows anything; the gate agents said we all know as much as they do," a United Airlines customer told ANI, describing how his trip from Milwaukee to Washington was delayed for hours at the gates and then hours on the tarmac.
Another passenger, Mack, stated, "I'm on my way home...I wasn't aware that the internet was down. "There is a global outage."
A traveler called Giane stated, "I have not heard anything from the airline from which I am flying. I recently saw a news alert on my phone...I am exhausted and want to return home."
Crowd Strike, an American cyber security technology firm that offers cloud workload protection, threat intelligence, and cyber-attack response services, stated the outage, which caused havoc for many, was not a 'cyber-attack'. Instead, there was a software issue, and a patch had been implemented.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), several US airlines, including American Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta Air Lines, issued ground stops for all flights early Friday owing to communication issues.
The FAA has instructed air traffic controllers to notify airborne pilots that airlines are currently experiencing communication challenges. As of 8:05 a.m. ET (Eastern Time), Flight Aware reported over 1,100 planes cancelled and over 1,700 delays.
"A third-party software outage is affecting computer systems around the world, including at United," United Airlines said in a statement Friday morning. "While we work to restore those systems, we are keeping all aircraft at their departure airports." Flights that are already airborne will continue to their destinations."
"We are aware of a technical issue with Crowd Strike that affects several carriers. "American is working with Crowd Strike to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and we apologize to our customers for the inconvenience," the airline stated in a statement.
The outage affected a variety of industries, including banks and media companies.
"We're looking into an issue that is affecting users' ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services," Microsoft stated in a statement posted on social media Friday morning.
CrowdStrike, the security firm linked to a software update that caused the outage, announced earlier in the day that the issue had been isolated and a fix had been delivered after numerous organizations around the world experienced IT disruptions on Friday, including seeing the 'Windows blue screen of death'.
Crowd Strike's President and CEO, George Kurtz, stated that the cyber security company was working with customers to resolve the issues they were experiencing while assuring them that the situation was "not a security incident or cyber attack."
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also responded to the outage, stating that Microsoft is working closely with Crowd Strike to provide technical advise and support to customers.
"Yesterday, Crowd Strike launched an upgrade that began affecting IT systems worldwide. We are aware of this issue and are working together with Crowd Strike and others in the industry to provide clients with technical assistance and help as they safely bring their systems back online," Nadella wrote on X.
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