United Airlines computer outage grounds planes
Published: 21 Jun 2007 13:31 BST
United Airlines was forced to temporarily ground all flights on Wednesday morning after experiencing a computer-system failure, the US Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed.
The outage took place between 6am and 8am US West Coast time.
"It was their system, not ours. It was their decision whether they would go up or not. They are now up and running," an FAA spokesperson said.
A total of 24 domestic flights were cancelled, and 268 domestic and international flights were delayed by an average of one-and-a-half hours, according to United Airlines spokeswoman Robin Urbanski Janikowski.
"We do not know the cause of the outage, and it's something that we will investigate. The computer outage affected the systems that United uses to dispatch flights for departure," Janikowski said.
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