Seattle family stranded for multiple days after Delta cancels flights amid CrowdStrike outage [Video]

A Seattle family says they have been left stranded at the airport for multiple days after Delta had canceled hundreds of flights Tuesday amid the CrowdStrike outage.

Delta Air Lines is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection as the airline canceled hundreds of flights for a fifth straight day after a faulty software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike took down Microsoft systems around the world.

Since Friday, Delta Air Lines has canceled more than 5,300 flights, including roughly 500 on Tuesday, which is fewer than the previous days, a spokesperson with the company said.

“You feel like you’re suffocating and there’s no one here to help,” said Sharon Cercone, a passenger.

Cercone said she and her two young daughters flew from Seattle to Buffalo for a wedding.

However, their trip quickly turned south when their return flight on Friday was canceled.

She said …