How Crowdstrike Software Glitch Caused Air Travel Chaos

A glitch brought Microsoft computers crashing worldwide. It triggered blue screens of death in Times Square. Most major airports across the U.S. Were brought to a standstill. A FlightAware map showed how emptied the skies were as hundreds of flights were grounded. LAX was a sea of unchecked baggage and frustrated passengers. Thousands of Republican convention delegates were stranded in Milwaukee, along with Inside Edition's Steven Fabian.

[bionicswitch]

This really shows how much control and reliance these tech and software companies have over the entire world

[arkwill]

We've become _too_ dependent on interconnected systems using the same software. If a mistake can cause this -- imagine what something intentionally nefarious could do?

[jenjaxskye]

LESSON: There should always be a BACK-UP manual system in place for something like this.

[juliethompson]

"Can't even call 911...can you imagine that??!!" As a retired 911 dispatcher, I can assure you that many people did.

[williamfugatt]

sorry tripped over the cord but i plugged back in

[ALX]

Computers man. Sure they help with a lot of things, but society should still be able to function without them.

[gamersroost]

This dude told the world his wife is 40. That's what I took away from this. Bless his soul.

[CASH-THE-NERD]

My dad got stuck in Atlanta for 5 hours, he had to get a rental car and drive home. He got home at 5 AM, absolute chaos!

[Techno-Universal]

This is what we feared would happen on New Year’s Day in 2000 because of the Y2K bug but luckily nothing really happened at the time thanks to it being patched in all major computer systems at the time.

[goldieson]

Honestly I didn’t even notice it was a world wide glitch, I try to login in my bank, and just say screw it and do something else

[Kumar_]

That guy’s wife isn’t going to forgive him for mentioning her age. 😂😂

[nataliejones]

I didn't noticed until now about microsoft crashing worldwide. I wasn't really on my computer at all earlier today because I was busy taking care of things like going to work and do chores xD.

[stacieg]

Hospitals should still have the good old folders with written papers about patients at least for back up

[FDR-wwxz]

So this is what it's like experiencing the movie "The Terminal" in real life.

[kitskivich]

Whoever loused up that code is having the worst day of their career.

[twinmillario]

(0:21) The Day The Technology Stood Still

[JVenger]

IT here. It sucked having to touch all workstations that were affected but luckily it was a relatively easy fix. is the culprit.

[solarman]

this whole thing caused my company's debit and credit systems to go out too and so many customers kept getting mad at me because they couldn't use their cards

[bassboosted]

I work IT for a large software dev operation in Australia... PCs started to blue screen at around 3pm... by 4pm every single PC was down in every office in Australia... within 1 hour our team determined it was crowdstrike. Although still silence from Crowdstrike... our 5 man team war roomed and found and tested the fix... rolled out the fix to every 500+ Windows PC, window servers and virtual windows machine... the worst part was fix could not be applied remotely as all workstations was bricked... we had to 1 PC at a time physically in person to apply the our fix... while ours phones was going nuts with people going nuts cuz they can't work... i walked out of office at 12am... no food no breaks as a broken IT Support.... thanks to crowdstrike...

[Ryan_asti]

It’s like that scene in war of the worlds where that tripod causes every single technology to fail even cars can’t run now