hind global aviation disruption SECTIONS Airbus A320 software issue: What is ELAC? The root cause behind global aviation disruption
Airbus has ordered software updates for approximately 6,000 A320 family aircrafts—more than half its global fleet—after discovering that intense solar radiation can corrupt critical flight control systems, triggering one of the largest aircraft recalls in aviation history.
The setback appears to be among the largest recalls affecting Airbus in its 55-year history and comes weeks after the A320 overtook the Boeing 737 as the most-delivered model. At the time Airbus issued its bulletin to the plane’s more than 350 operators, some 3,000 A320-family jets were in the air.
