On Friday, July 19, Arjun Rampal found himself in a difficult situation because of a widespread Microsoft cloud service outage. The actor had to book a new flight for himself because the outage caused significant disruptions at several airports across India.
#WATCH | Microsoft outage affecting flight operations: Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal, who arrived at the Mumbai airport; says, “Their servers are down, I don’t know what has happened. I also have a ticket of another airline. I am going there…” pic.twitter.com/DqBBVU6r88
— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2024
Details of the Incident
The Microsoft outage on July 19 led to massive flight delays at major airports in Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune, and Mumbai. This issue affected the booking and check-in systems for airlines including IndiGo, Akasa Airlines, and SpiceJet. The outage was caused by a blue screen of death error on Windows workstations worldwide, which also impacted other sectors such as banks, telecom companies, and media outlets.
On the professional front, Arjun Rampal was last seen in the action drama ‘Crakk’.