{"id":655694,"date":"2025-12-08T08:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655694"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:12:02","slug":"space-weather-in-focus-after-airbus-fleet-recall-experts-raise-questions-about-solar-flare-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/space-weather-in-focus-after-airbus-fleet-recall-experts-raise-questions-about-solar-flare-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Space weather in focus after Airbus fleet recall, experts raise questions about solar flare theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aerospace giant Airbus recalling about half of its global fleet over a commercial plane&#8217;s sudden altitude drop brings into sharp focus the importance of space weather in flight safety, even as experts raise questions about the company&#8217;s analysis that a powerful solar flare caused damage to flight software. <\/p>\n<p>An A320 aircraft unexpectedly lost altitude during a Mexico-US flight on October 30, injuring 15 passengers. In a statement on November 28, Airbus linked the incident to damage suffered by flight software due to &#8220;intense solar radiation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerospace giant Airbus recalling about half of its global fleet over a commercial plane&#8217;s sudden altitude drop brings into sharp focus the importance of space weather in flight safety, even as experts raise questions about the company&#8217;s analysis that a powerful solar flare caused damage to flight software. An A320 aircraft unexpectedly lost altitude during a Mexico-US flight on October 30, injuring 15 passengers. In a statement on November 28, Airbus linked the incident to damage suffered by flight software due to &#8220;intense solar radiation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}