On Friday morning, major American airlines reported a large-scale disruption and suspended flights. Then reports of possible flight delays began to come from Europe: Berlin Airport and Spanish airports reported problems.

More details regarding the issue:

▪️The largest airlines in the United States, including United Airlines, Delta Airlines and American Airlines, stopped operating; they reported problems with communication;

▪️Airlines and airports around the world are reporting problems, possible delays and disruptions. The British Sky News channel was unable to go on air; the largest British railway operator also has problems;

▪️One of South Africa’s largest banks, Capitec, was affected by disruptions. However, the failure did not affect the operation of ATMs or card payments;

▪️In Australia, telecom operators, banks and airlines have problems. The government has called an emergency meeting due to the global IT outage;

▪️In Ukraine, the parcel delivery company Novaya Pochta, the mobile operator Vodafone and Sense Bank are reporting failures;

▪️Turkish Airlines has warned of a global outage that is causing major problems with ticket bookings and check-in. The company’s application is unavailable, and the web sites do not load;

▪️Residents of Alaska cannot call emergency services due to a major local communication failure, local TV reported, there is no information about the reasons;

▪️UK healthcare facilities affected by massive Microsoft outage;

▪️The cause of the failure was a software update error from the security company Crowdstrike;

▪️An unsuccessful update caused a critical error in Windows operation on both computers and servers;

▪️Microsoft, commenting on the technical failure, stated that services are being restored and stabilization measures continue to be taken.

The videos are from social media and show Los Angeles International Airport in the US and the airport in Dubai.