Airbus Faces Multiple Quality Issues and Groundings on A320 Fleet
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A JetBlue flight's sudden altitude drop was caused by cosmic ray-induced bit flips in its computer systems, leading Airbus to recall over 6,000 aircraft for software and hardware updates to prevent similar incidents caused by space radiation affecting microchips in fly-by-wire systems.
- Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft BBC
- Exclusive: Airbus confirms new quality problem on 'limited' number of A320 jets Reuters
- Airbus shares fall on reports of new quality issue on dozens of A320 aircraft CNBC
- Airlines race to fix Airbus planes after warning solar radiation could cause pilots to lose control CNN
- Airbus Shares Fall After Urgent Fixes Needed on Thousands of A320 Aircraft The Wall Street Journal
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