The federal government grounded departures at Kansas City International Airport and nationwide Wednesday morning for several hours because of a critical overnight system outage. The problem scrambled the schedules for dozens of flights locally.
As of 2:20 p.m., 103 flights had been delayed, and 17 have been canceled at KCI (Code: MCI), according to flight-tracking website Flight Aware. That number had been increasing throughout the morning.
Fifty-one of the delays and 12 of the cancellations were…