Global tech CHAOS as Microsoft outage cancels flights, forces jets to stay airborne, crashes banks and TV channels off air

A major global tech outage has sparked chaos with flights grounded and TV channels and banks knocked offline.

According to “The Sun”,  the severe issues at Microsoft have crashed computer systems across the world leaving major businesses, newsrooms and television networks all plunged into chaos.

Sky News and Sky Sports have also been rocked by the outages with them going off air completely – leaving viewers baffled by the severe disruption.

Friday’s Sky News breakfast show was wiped off computer and TV screens for hours with a statement apologising for the “interruption” being shown instead.

Various Microsoft services in Europe, Asia, North America and Oceania have all been facing tech issues in the past few hours.

The chaos comes on what is set to be busiest day for flights in five years as the school holidays get underway for summer.