Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury announced that the necessary software change had been carried out on all A320 aircraft in service that required such modification. The problem appeared at the end of November and affected approximately 6,000. machines.
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– Everything is back to normal, the software has been changed and the planes have been adapted (to the appropriate configuration – PAP) – Faury said on FranceInter radio. He assured that the software had been changed “in all planes that fly today.”
Faury specified that after three days the modifications had been made to 4,400 aircraft, and after four days – to all of them. Earlier, the media reported that potentially 6,000. machines will require such intervention.
The head of Airbus also commented on the problem with the quality of metal panels on the aircraft fuselage, which was reported a little later. He emphasized that these are “two completely different problems” and the problem of the panels “is not a safety issue.”
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At the end of November, Airbus announced that it had ordered software changes in more than half of the global fleet of A320 aircraft, i.e. approximately 6,000. planes. The reason was an incident involving an A320 family aircraft, which revealed the negative impact of solar radiation on data that is crucial to the flight control system. Industry sources informed then that the Polish airline LOT did not have these machines in its fleet.
