American Airlines ( AAL ) was forced to temporarily ground US flights due to a tech issue. In a statement to Yahoo Finance, American says the ground stop lasted approximately an hour adding that "The technology issue impacted systems needed to release flights."

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This post was written by Stephanie Mikulich.