Flights were delayed and cancelled globally after Airbus ordered fixes to six,000 of its A320 series planes, based on The Guardian.
The corporate said it’s taking motion because “evaluation of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.”
Citing industry sources, Reuters reports that the event in query was an October 30 JetBlue flight from Cancun, Mexico to Newark, Recent Jersey, by which the plane suddenly lost altitude and needed to make an emergency landing in Tampa.
The Federal Aviation Administration has reportedly issued an emergency airworthiness directive calling for the affected planes to revert to earlier software before they will fly again. A smaller subset might want to have their hardware modified, Airbus said.