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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Helen Coffey,Oliver O'Connell and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Flights grounded – latest: Corrupted file blamed for 10,000 US plane delays

Patrick Semansky/AP

FAA lifts grounding order on flights after computer outage

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said a corrupted database file was the reason behind the nationwide grounding of nearly 10,000 flights for the first time in two decades.

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