FAA Statement The Federal Aviation Administration issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (EAD) for certain Airbus A319 and A320/321 airplanes. The EAD requires replacing or modifying the software that controls the airplanes’ elevator ailerons. The EAD is effective…

Airbus issued an urgent directive on a “significant number" of A320 family aircraft, potentially disrupting travel. Here’s what we know.

Thousands of Airbus A320 planes faced potential grounding after a shocking discovery — solar radiation could corrupt flight control systems. Following an urgent warning, Airbus raced to issue a critical software update to over 6,

Airbus has faced a challenging few days as it issued a software fix for its best-selling A320 family before confirming an issue with metal panels.

On Saturday, airlines around the world scrambled to fix software issues on hundreds of Airbus A320s after a JetBlue flight's sudden

One of the world’s largest airplane makers said Friday that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to flight controls on a “significant number” of its most popular aircraft, prompting a swift response from several airlines. Airbus attributed the revelation to a recent analysis involving its A320 family of aircraft.

The European aerospace giant said it had found that intense radiation from the Sun could corrupt data crucial to flight controls.

Airlines have been forced to ground thousands of Airbus planes following a software problem possibly linked to an aircraft's sudden loss of altitude last month.