Sydney Airport flights grounded by air traffic control outage

By Patrick Hatch
Updated September 27 2017 - 1:03am, first published 12:52am
Airline passengers are seen at Sydney Domestic Airport during a technical delay, Monday, 25 September 2017. Virgin Australia, Qantas and Jetstar have confirmed the problem is affecting flights. Hundreds of passengers have been affected after the "technical issue" occurred about 5am on Monday. (AAP Image/Daniel Munoz) NO ARCHIVING
Airline passengers are seen at Sydney Domestic Airport during a technical delay, Monday, 25 September 2017. Virgin Australia, Qantas and Jetstar have confirmed the problem is affecting flights. Hundreds of passengers have been affected after the "technical issue" occurred about 5am on Monday. (AAP Image/Daniel Munoz) NO ARCHIVING
Airline passengers are seen at Sydney Domestic Airport during a technical delay, Monday, 25 September 2017. Virgin Australia, Qantas and Jetstar have confirmed the problem is affecting flights. Hundreds of passengers have been affected after the "technical issue" occurred about 5am on Monday. (AAP Image/Sallie Don) NO ARCHIVING
Airline passengers are seen at Sydney Domestic Airport during a technical delay, Monday, 25 September 2017. Virgin Australia, Qantas and Jetstar have confirmed the problem is affecting flights. Hundreds of passengers have been affected after the "technical issue" occurred about 5am on Monday. (AAP Image/Sallie Don) NO ARCHIVING

An outage at Sydney Airport air traffic control grounded flights to and from the country's largest airport during one of its busiest periods.

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