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100% of what? Those things have ECC and redundancy to the hilt. The data corruption odds are real and higher than one would expect but still not very high.
Look at pag 138...and correlation with altitude...: https://www.atsb.gov.au/sites/default/files/media/3532398/ao...
EMI causing bugs is the equivalent of "bad juju".
So the patch will be physical, I imagine. ("Apply this very expensive special tape from (e.g.) 3M here and here.")
> Before next flight after the effective date of this AD, replace or modify each affected ELAC with a serviceable ELAC in accordance with the instructions of the AOT. > > A ferry flight (up to 3 Flight Cycles, non-ETOPS, no passengers) is permitted to position the aeroplane to a location where the replacement or modification can be accomplished.
That's a very limiting AD. The "before the next flight" part is unusual, ADs often have a limit to the next inspection or X flight hours or similar, not immediately.
This is highly unusual, so there may be something more to it than only speculation about radiation. The emergency AD says: > Before next flight after the effective date of this AD, replace or modify each affected ELAC with a serviceable ELAC in accordance with the instructions of the AOT. > > A ferry flight (up to 3 Flight Cycles, non-ETOPS, no passengers) is permitted to position the aeroplane to a location where th…
Emergency Airworthiness Directive 2025-0268-E: https://ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_AD_2025_0268_E.pdf/EAD_2... This was the incident that triggered the investigation: https://avherald.com/h?article=52f1ffc3&opt=0 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/30/us/jetblue-flight-emergen... List of Airbus A320 family operators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A320_family_ope...
According to the airworthiness directive: Affected ELAC: Elevator aileron computer (ELAC) ELAC B L104 Serviceable ELAC: ELAC B L103+ So it's a regression that affects decades old aircraft. Of course Airbus is now also meddling with "AI": https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/digital-transformation/... Obviously there no direct connection here, but it seems that destabilizing perfectly working aircraft could be the pro…
The title sounds like speculative clickbait. From https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-ai... : Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls. This is different from the core claim that the incident was caused by radiation. What are the prior probabilities that the system was ex…
Radiation should be covered under normal safety, along with they already shield for it.
People often wrongly blame things on radiation, bit flips etc. when they don't know the real cause. A well known pattern.
There is a Hacker News item that was on high repeat where they eventually they solved the ~'cosmic radiation bug' as they first called it. Cannot remember the link.
It will not be true no matter what the, I know 'interesting' facts, 'I have a wiki link', crowd tell you. Real life is boring (and amazing). See Heisenbug's - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
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I've read the EASA emergency airworthiness directive, it's only a software change.
A software change that remedies solar radiation issues? Cool.
Caused uncommanded pitch down, could exceed structural integrity of aircraft. There are redundant units - unknown why this can happen given redundancy.
Also not very clear how they attributed the failure to solar radiation.