Customs Computers Restored After Nationwide Failure at Airports
- System broke down during the busy summer travel season
- Normal service returning after several hours of disruption
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Entry for people arriving at airports across the U.S. began returning to normal Friday evening after a Customs and Border Protection computer system failed, forcing the manual processing of passengers on a busy summer travel day.
The system was being restored and passengers being processed, the agency said in a statement at 6:25 p.m. New York time. The failure was isolated to operations at airports, sparing other points of entry such as seaports or highway border crossings, according to the agency.