More than 1,400 flights were cancelled worldwide this morning: A global collapse in technological systems has paralyzed airports, broadcasting stations, and transportation systems.
According to local and international media, a global IT collapse occurred this morning, and reports are still being updated. The outage affected almost everything, from airports experiencing problems with passenger check-in and malfunctioning departure and arrival information screens, resulting in the cancellation of more than 1,400 flights worldwide out of approximately 110,000 scheduled for Friday, to airlines suffering from booking issues, with some resorting to handwriting information on whiteboards instead of screens and even writing boarding passes by hand instead of printing them, as happened at an airport in India. Media outlets, such as Sky News in the US, experienced complete outages, as did supermarkets, businesses, government sectors, and ministries around the world, in addition to hospital systems in some countries. Read more after the announcement.
Britain and Australia: It's not a cyberattack
The British and Australian governments have stated that there is no indication of a cybersecurity threat or that the incident was a confirmed cyberattack. The global IT outage appears to have been triggered by an antivirus update called Crowdstrike, which is causing computers running Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system to crash. The IT disruption is affecting Windows computers worldwide.
The problem has just been fixed, but its repercussions continue.
The technology giant Microsoft stated a short while ago that the cause of the outage has been fixed.
Which caused the global collapse of information technology, however, there will still be repercussions from the disruption, affecting Office 365 applications and services, according to Reuters.
Turkish Airlines cancels 84 flights
Turkish Airlines announced the cancellation of 84 flights on Friday due to a major IT outage. The cancellations were made to prevent further disruption to flight operations, and other departing flights will be operated as soon as possible, according to a statement from Turkish Airlines. Read more after the announcement.
Delays in some flights at Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen Airport announced delays to some departure flights due to problems at other airports around the world.
SAS anticipates delays
SAS expects “many delays” as a result of the IT outage, with press director Alexandra Lindgren Kaukji telling TV2: “We are less affected than many others. But of course there will be many delays. We are keeping affected passengers informed.”.
DSB transport company systems down
Denmark's DSB systems were also affected by the global technological collapse for some time, and just recently announced in an update that their systems are back up and running again.
Capital Region: No critical problems for patients
Hospitals in the Capital Region are not facing critical problems for patients as a result of the global IT collapse, the Capital Region told TV2.
