A COMPUTER outage at the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has brought flights to a standstill across America, with hundreds of delays quickly cascading through the system at US airports.
The FAA ordered all US flights to delay departures until 9am EST (2pm GMT), though airlines said they were aware of the situation and had already begun grounding flights.
At 8am EST (1pm GMT), there were more than 2500 delayed flights within, into or out of the United States, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware, exceeding the number of all delayed flights on the previous day.