A MAJOR global tech outage has sparked chaos with flights grounded and TV channels and banks knocked offline.
The severe issues have crashed computer systems across the world leaving major businesses, newsrooms and television networks all plunged into chaos.
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Sky News has also been rocked by the outages with it going off air completely – leaving viewers baffled by the severe disruption.
Friday’s Sky News breakfast show was wiped off computer and TV screens with a statement apologising for the “interruption” being shown.
Americans have been hit with travel chaos as all American Airlines flights have been grounded due to the outage.
Flights in the air are set to stay airborne until the issue is resolved, say the Federal Aviation Agency.
American Airlines, United and Delta operators have also said no flights will take-off.
With Australia also facing travel woes with their largest airline, Qantas, being badly affected with flights grounded and travellers left in the dark.
Mumbai Airport is the latest victim of the tech issues with check-in desks reportedly down for IndiGo, Akasa and SpiceJet flights.
Ryanair has also sent out a warning to passengers urging them to arrive at least three hours early in case of any disruptions.
They claimed the issues were down to a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Other public transport such as railway lines have also been badly disrupted.
Gatwick Express announced on X that they are “currently experiencing widespread IT issues” across their entire network.
They urged passengers to be wary of short-notice cancellations throughout the next few hours.
Thousands of people have also reportedly been locked out of their banks due to the outage.
The London Stock Exchange is also affected, claim worrying reports.
Various Microsoft services in Japan and New Zealand are also facing tech issues.