More than 5,000 flights were cancelled as a global IT outage hit Windows PCs on Friday, while the 'majority' of GP surgeries in England and Northern Ireland were unable to book appointments or access patient information.
It could take 'weeks' to fix a global IT outage which grounded more than 5,000 flights, an expert has warned, as the full impact of the software bug becomes clear. The outage spread globally on Friday morning after an update from global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many Microsoft Windows PCs offline with a 'blue screen of death' appearing on screens. The issue caused travel cancellations and left NHS systems inaccessible.
Read more:What we know so farServices affected by the outage By 8pm, 5,078 flights had been grounded worldwide - which equates to 4.6% of all scheduled flights globally, according to an aviation analytics company. Cirium Data added that 167 flights that should have left UK airports have been cancelled so far - which is 5.4% of departures - while 171 inbound arrivals were cancelled.
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