Flights were delayed and canceled around the world after Airbus ordered repairs to 6,000 of its A320 series planes. according to The Guardian.
The company He said he is taking action. because “analysis of a recent event involving an A320 family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation can corrupt data critical to the operation of flight controls.”
Citing industry sources, Reuters reports that the event in question was a JetBlue flight on October 30 from Cancun, Mexico to Newark, New Jersey, in which 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 requiring affected aircraft to revert to previous software before they can fly again. A smaller subset will need to change their hardware, Airbus said.
