A global computer outage grounded flights in Southern California on Friday morning as reports of possible outages across the nation and the world affected companies including Microsoft and Google on Thursday night.
According to a report from City News Service, Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman Dae Levin said there were delays on United, Delta, and American Airlines flights on Friday.
Departing flights were delayed after airlines in Los Angeles, Hollywood Burbank Airport, and Long Beach Airport requested that the Federal Aviation Administration—the U.S. agency overseeing aviation domestically and abroad—ground all flights following reports of outages in multiple countries, the report said.
“While we work to restore those systems, we are holding all aircraft at their departure airports. Flights already airborne are continuing to their destinations,” United Airlines said in a statement.
American Airlines resumed operations at 2 a.m. on Friday morning, according to a statement.
The emergency office said the effect of the global outage was “minor” in California.
The Orange County Fire Authority said the outage temporarily affected some internal systems at the agency, according to City News Service. Its emergency response systems were unaffected.
Microsoft, Google Cloud, the London Stock Exchange, and Gatwick Airport in the UK were also affected by the global IT outage, according to the report.
The company said it was continuing to resolve the impact of the outage on its services and stated at around 8:30 p.m. PT that apps and services had been restored.
“We assure our customers that CrowdStrike is operating normally and this issue does not affect our Falcon platform systems,” the statement said.
Other California agencies experiencing disruptions in normal daily operations were Amtrak, Los Angeles Superior Court, and the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, City News Service reported.
