Airbus requires software fixes for thousands of planes due to solar radiation risks


Flights were delayed and canceled globally after Airbus ordered repairs for 6,000 of its A320 series aircraft. According to The Guardian newspaper.

Company He said she is taking action Because “analysis of the recent incident involving an A320 family aircraft revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data important to the operation of flight control devices.”

Citing industry sources Reuters reports The event in question was a JetBlue flight on October 30 from Cancun, Mexico, to Newark, New Jersey, where the plane suddenly lost altitude and had to make an emergency landing in Tampa.

The Federal Aviation Administration has reportedly issued an emergency airworthiness directive calling for affected aircraft to return to previous programs before they can fly again. Airbus said a smaller subset will need to change its equipment.

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