Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft - BBC
6 days ago · Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing problem.
Plane's sudden and uncontrolled drop 'could have been caused ...
3 days ago · The explosion of a distant star could have caused a major malfunction which forced a passenger jet to make an emergency landing and led to Airbus grounding 6,000 planes, an …
Was the Airbus A320 Recall Caused By Cosmic Rays? - Slashdot
15 hours ago · What triggered that Airbus emergency software recall? The BBC reports that Airbus's initial investigation into an aircraft's sudden drop in altitude linked it "to a malfunction …
Airbus A320 recall: How cosmic radiation can hijack a plane’s ...
Nov 29, 2025 · A single cosmic ray can cause what engineers call a Single Event Upset (SEU) a bit-flip in memory that changes a “0” to a “1.” In aircraft avionics, even tiny errors can distort …
6,000 Airbus Jets Grounded, Because Nobody Tested for the Sun
Nov 28, 2025 · So why did it happen again, and why is it such a big recall? New Airbus software created an old data integrity vulnerability. While solar radiation has remained predictably …
Cosmic rays may have forced a passenger jet to make an ...
4 days ago · A cosmic ray from a faraway supernova explosion may have sent a packed passenger jet into free fall in late October, forcing an emergency landing.
Airbus A320 glitch: Cosmic radiation blamed for JetBlue ... - MSN
Regulators took a “better safe than sorry” approach. In response, Airbus has recalled about 6,000 aircraft to apply this fix, which is over half of all A320-family jets worldwide.