A computer glitch at the FAA caused delays at airports all over the country even though the problem has been found and fixed.
It didn't take long for the FAA's computer glitch to cascade out to airports like Charlotte's Douglas International.
FAA officials have found the problem in the computers at one of its flight processing centers and they know what's happening they just can't say why yet.
But the result was, delays, hundreds of them because those facilities process flight plans for the entire country.
The FAA is quick to point out there was never any safety concern.
Flights were taking off and landing just fine.
But doing either was requiring more time.
Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest, was hardest hit.
By 9:00 this morning, Air Tran had canceled three dozens flights and delayed dozens more.
Delays at Delta were mounting as well.
American Airlines said hundreds of its flights have been knocked off schedule by the glitch.
The problem is similar to the one the FAA had at the Atlanta Processing Facility just over a year ago.
The fear is that what happened then has already happened now a full day of delays at the nation's airports.
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