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Computer Glitch Grounds Every Alaska Airlines Flight | Alaska warned passengers to brace for likely delays throughout the day.


Alaska warned passengers to brace for likely delays throughout the day.

A computer outage forced Alaska Airlines and its subsidiary Horizon Air to ground all flights Sunday night, halting operations across the board. The July 2024 outage brought down an estimated 8.5 million Microsoft Windows systems running CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor software, disrupting everything from hospitals and airports to broadcast networks. There’s no word yet from Alaska on whether the outage ties into a broader software problem, but the timing, almost exactly a year after the CrowdStrike crash, isn’t going unnoticed on social media, with users wondering if the events are related.

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