crowdstrike

On July 19, 2024, a software update from CrowdStrike caused a major disruption by triggering blue screens of death on Windows machines globally. This incident led to a widespread IT outage that impacted various sectors, including grounding commercial airline flights worldwide, taking Sky News offline, and disrupting 911 emergency call centers.

We decided to take a look at statistics accumulated by AeroDataBox API during the day to see how much was the impact on the worldwide air traffic.