> 6,000 Airbus A320 passenger planes will be grounded this weekend due to software bug.

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Bad idea to roll out a hasty software change to all the planes at once.  Terrible idea. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Crow … IT_outages

Did Airbus farm out their software development to street shytters like Boeing did?

SamplesBoi wrote:

Bad idea to roll out a hasty software change to all the planes at once.  Terrible idea. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Crow … IT_outages

It's not a hasty change - it's a rollback to the previous stable version, so the software already exists and it's just a matter of deploying it.

Airlines adopt software fix for Airbus A320 after plane has sudden altitude drop

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2025/11/29/ai … tude-drop/

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Air travel around the world is facing potential disruptions this weekend after Airbus said a “significant number” of the European plane maker’s jets might require fixes before they are able to carry passengers again.

European regulators on Friday mandated the fixes after a solar-radiation event disrupted cockpit systems on an Airbus jet operated by JetBlue Airways in October. Under regulators’ emergency order, jets could be temporarily grounded if airlines don’t make certain software or hardware updates by late Saturday.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s order Friday came after Airbus said that its A320 family of planes needed to be inspected and have software and hardware fixes completed. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is expected to issue a related emergency order, according to government and industry officials.

Airbus said about 6,000 of the planes in its A320 family are affected, or roughly half the fleet.

It's actually a hardware deficiency, the MCUs and memory don't have EDAC/ECC features.  But they're compensating with a software hack.