FAA Grounds All Flights Over Computer Outage

NBC News reports:

Flights across the United States were affected Wednesday morning after the Federal Aviation Administration said it experienced a computer outage. All flights in the U.S. were grounded following the incident, a source with knowledge of the situation told NBC News.

About 1230  flights within, into and out of the U.S. were delayed as of around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to online flight tracker FlightAware. Around 90 flights were listed as cancelled. The news came after a number of social media users said they had been impacted by the situation.

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