Major global Microsoft outage grounds planes & locks people out of bank accounts
A MAJOR global technology outage has plagued services from airlines to banks as Microsoft cloud services are downed.
The severe issues has crashed computers around the world leaving major banks, businesses, newsrooms and television networks all plunged into chaos.
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 of computer and TV screens with archive footage being played.
Americans have been hit with travel chaos as all American Airlines flights have been grounded due to the shortage.
With Australia also facing travel woes with their largest airline, Qantas, being badly affected with flights grounded and travellers left in the dark.
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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”.
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