All flights across the US have been grounded due to a glitch with the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system, US media reports.

In a statement to NBC, the FAA said: “The FAA is working to restore its Notice to Air Missions System.

“We are performing final validation checks and repopulating the system now. Operations across the National Airspace System are affected.

“We will provide frequent updates as we make progress.”

Several people tweeted to say they had been stranded due to the outage.