This is a shock announcement! Some 6,000 Aibus A320 planes must urgently replace control software vulnerable to solar radiation after an “event” in the United States on a JetBlue aircraft at the end of October, said a spokesperson for the aircraft manufacturer.
Airbus notified all of its customers using this software on Friday to “immediately stop flights” after analysis of this technical incident which “revealed that intense solar radiation could corrupt data essential to the operation of flight controls”.