Flights were delayed and canceled worldwide after Airbus ordered 6,000 of its A320 series planes to be repaired. According to The Guardian.
Company Said, it is taking measures Because “analysis of a recent event involving an A320 family aircraft revealed that intense solar radiation may have corrupted data critical to flight control performance.”
Airbus orders software fix on thousands
According to industry sources, Reuters reports The incident involved an Oct. 30 JetBlue flight 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 issued an emergency airworthiness directive calling for affected aircraft to revert to earlier software before flying again. A small subset will need to change their hardware, Airbus said.