Global tech outage hits Columbus travelers [Video]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A global Microsoft outage brought the travel world to a halt on July 19 as an information technology glitch crashed systems everywhere.

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind the glitch, said this is not a cyber attack and that it has a solution.

Airlines felt the heat, but so did businesses and city governments. It was no different here in Columbus.

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According to a flight tracking site, around 4 p.m. on Friday, 90 flights had been delayed and 41 canceled at CMH.

While people waited hours in lines, people down at Columbus City Hall were also struggling with the outage. Columbus city websites frequently displayed an error message. It was like that for sites such as 311, Columbus’ customer service center.

City website outages may not have effected too many citizens, but for others — especially those hoping to get on a plane — this outage had a larger …