American cancels U.S. flights for hours

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

DALLAS -- A key computer system used to run many daily operations at American Airlines failed Tuesday, forcing the nation's third-largest carrier to ground all flights across the United States for several hours and stranding thousands of frustrated passengers at airports and on planes.

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