United Airlines grounded flights for an hour after a bad software update

You might have faced an unexpected but perhaps brief delay if you were catching a United Airlines flight today. The company issued a nationwide ground stop because of a computer issue, as ABC News first reported. United Airlines asked the FAA to pause the airline’s departures nationwide, the Federal Aviation Administration told Engadget. At 1:45PM ET, however, United lifted the ground stop and it started to spin operations back up.