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BREAKING NEWS: It appears that this morning United Airlines is experiencing a system-wide stoppage as all flights are currently grounded. You may remember a few weeks ago when LOT Airlines experienced a hack that was submitting bogus flight plans to pilots. It’s unclear whether this is related or not.
As always, in the immediate aftermath, details are still forthcoming. Here are a few examples of users on Twitter sharing what they know:
In case anyone is flying on #united today, they are facing a worldwide system failure and will experience delays. pic.twitter.com/YPuR1QFAHM
— Erik Ford (@erikford) July 8, 2015
Breaking: @United Airlines has suffered a system wide computer system crash that has paralyzed all flights at every airport. #united #travel
— W Patrick Wilson (@DUhockeyFan) July 8, 2015
Update: @United‘s “nationwide ground stop” persists. Some are “coming up piecemeal” but still no movement. #united #travel
— W Patrick Wilson (@DUhockeyFan) July 8, 2015
Flight 1908 from ORD to LGA de boarded and delayed indefinitely as we’re told United systems nationwide are down. #United #UnitedAirlines
— mscheng (@liuliulemons) July 8, 2015
I will update this post / post again with any new information I’m able to find. Hopefully none of you are flying United to connect to a different airline’s flight this morning!!!
UPDATE: According to Airlive.net – the ground stop was lifted at about 10am EDT (14:00 UTC). United Airlines issued a statement saying ‘We experienced a network connectivity issue this morning. We are working to resolve this and apologize to our customers for any inconvenience’.
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