(NewsNation) — A technical outage prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue ground stop orders to some of America’s largest airlines early Friday morning.
The FAA has ordered American, Delta, Allegiant and United flights that have not taken off to stay where they are. Flights in the air are not being asked to land before reaching their destinations, but pilots have been warned they may experience communication problems.
Microsoft has acknowledged an issue with its software and said it was working on a fix. Another company, CrowdStrike, is also working on the problem. Users on X are reporting so-called “Blue Screen of Death” (or BSOD) errors on Windows machines.
It’s affecting companies worldwide across multiple industries from airlines to banks to some broadcast news operations.
One man on X posted that his airline had to manually write out his boarding pass in India because their computers weren’t working.
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