As flights across the United States were delayed due to a glitch in the computer-based system of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), passengers took to social media to report last-minute cancellation of their flights.
"Anyone one else stranded? Our @united says there is a nation wide outage of FAA
@FAANews computer systems," mathematician DJ Patil, served as the Chief Data Scientist of the US, tweeted.
"Last time they had to do this I was when Oklahoma system flooded."
"@AmericanAir informed us that all flights flying to the USA are grounded until the FAA system is fixed.
@FAANews, any updates? Currently in Paris, Thanks," Phileas Hocquard tweeted.
Another passenger at the Los Angeles International Airport said her American Airlines flight crew informed passengers that no flights were taking off from there.
At around 6:30 Eastern Time, there were 760 delays within, into or out of the United, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.
The FAA said it was working towards restoring its Notice to Air Missions System (NOTAM). "We are performing final validation checks and repopulating the system now. Operations across the National Airspace System are affected," it tweeted.
The agency said that it would provide frequent updates as it made progress.
The grounding of flights comes weeks after the United States witnessed massive disruptions in flights due to the fierce winter, affecting lakhs of people.
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