12 Jan 2023

US airport chaos after hazard system outage downs flights

From Morning Report, 8:28 am on 12 January 2023

Planes are slowly taking off in the US again after a systems outage grounded all departure flights.

The problems began when the system which alerts pilots to potential hazards went down for several hours.

Delays from the ground stop are still continuing, with airlines playing catch-up on more than 7000 flights nationwide, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware.

Our Washington correspondent Caroline Malone spoke to Charlotte Cook.