Airbus Completes Work to Fix Majority of A320 Aircraft

Airbus AIR 0.15%increase; green up pointing triangle said Monday that the majority of fixes required on A320 aircraft to protect against potential data issues from solar radiation have now been completed.

Regulators had mandated some software and hardware fixes late last week after it was discovered that interference from intense solar radiation had corrupted data used for flight controls on an Airbus jet operated by JetBlue Airways JBLU 1.11%increase; green up pointing triangle in October. The issue caused a sudden drop in altitude and forced the Cancun, Mexico, to Newark, N.J. flight to make an emergency landing at Tampa International Airport in Florida.