Explained: How the Microsoft-CrowdStrike IT outage hurt airlines worldwide

Friday began on a crazy note for the world. Having woken up to wars in the past two years, the action shifted to the cyber world this Friday. Airlines in the United States reported issues with communications to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and requested for a ground stop later at night, which was in effect with the major airlines suspending worldwide operations for a brief period.

Screens at airports across the world went Blue or the so-called “Blue screen of death”, FIDS (Flight Information Display Systems) started showing blue screen of death, and airport and airline systems came to a grinding halt.