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According to CBS News Bay Area: All Alaska Airlines flights nationwide were grounded Wednesday morning due to a computer issue, the airline said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the airline asked the FAA to institute the ground stop Wednesday morning.

Apparently the airline was performing an upgrade to its system that calculates weight and balance when a problem was detected that forced the shutdown order from FAA officials. The stop order was instituted at 7:50 a.m. PT Wednesday morning. Alaska apologized to passengers for the inconvenience and said that it was working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

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