Thousands of passengers were delayed worldwide after a computer glitch temporarily halted departures at United Airlines, the latest in a series of outages to affect rival companies in the industry.
A transatlantic United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Ireland after the plane was hit by severe turbulence that left 12 people in need of hospital treatment, according to the airline and the airport.
A United Airlines flight attendant deployed an emergency evacuation slide on an airplane after it arrived in Houston and used it to exit a plane packed with passengers, an airline official said.
