All flights across the US have been grounded

Source: Sky News

All flights across the US have been grounded due to a glitch with the Federal Aviation Administration's computer system.

The FAA said it was working to restore its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which alerts pilots of potential hazards along a flight route.

Some 760 flights within, into or out of the US have been delayed today, according to flight tracker FlightAware.com, while 91 have been canceled.

The FAA said: "The FAA is working to restore its Notice to Air Missions System.

"We are performing final validation checks and reloading the system now. Operations across the National Airspace System are affected.

"We will provide frequent updates as we make progress."

Several people tweeted to say they had been stranded due to the outage.

Anyone one else stranded? Our @united says there is a nation wide outage of FAA @FAANews computer systems.

— dj patil (@dpatil) January 11, 2023

A system wide #faa computer failure means all air travel is shut down nationwide. Waiting at LGA.

— Walter Katz (@w_katz1) January 11, 2023

Gotta love when you book a 6 am flight trying to avoid travel delays, but due to a nationwide FAA system issue the flight is delayed anyway. Going to be a long day :)

— Adele Burk (@BurkAdele) January 11, 2023

In Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Airline just informed us that the FAA computers are down in the US and no flights are flying to America.

— Sal Paradise (@kjbulko) January 11, 2023