Air travel’s worst case scenario has arrived in a form few passengers ever imagined: not terrorism or mechanical failure, but a blast of extreme solar radiation that has corrupted digital flight ...

In their lawsuit, filed last month in federal court in Tampa, the plaintiffs dispute the solar radiation explanation and allege that Airbus and ELAC manufacturer Thales failed to properly test the ...

Solar flares potentially destroying human civilization seems like a premise ripped from science fiction. However, there's a grain of truth in how fragile our tiny blue marble is as it hurtles around ...

Shortly after a Smartlynx Estonian Airbus 320 took off on February 28, 2018, all four of the aircraft’s flight control computers stopped working. Each performed precisely as designed, taking ...

Thousands of Airbus planes had to be grounded for a software update after it was discovered that intense solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers. Around 6,000 A320 planes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air passengers may soon feel like their aircraft need the same annoying, urgent updates their phones demand at the worst possible ...

Regulators issued an urgent directive to Airbus A320 operators on Friday, warning that the planes require a software update. An issue with the flight control software was identified and airlines will ...

Airbus A220 operators are being instructed to install a new production baseline software for flight-control computers to remedy a number of deficiencies reported on in-service aircraft. The upgrade is ...

The company’s Series C was led by Autopilot Ventures and returning investor Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation from new and returning investors ArrowMark Partners, Atreides ...