Autonomy is no longer science fiction. Advanced flight control systems that augment pilot decisions with artificial ...

Airbus ordered fixes on a large number of A320-family aircraft after discovering that intense solar radiation can corrupt data essential to flight-control systems. The recall may cause travel ...

Airbus pioneered the use of fly-by-wire (FBW) systems in commercial aviation with the launch of its successful Airbus A320 program in the late 1980s. The A320's fully digital FBW system was a first ...

A global wave of flight disruptions begun after Airbus warned that more than 6,000 A320-family jets need urgent software updates, following an investigation into an October JetBlue incident where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regulators issued an urgent directive to Airbus A320 operators on Friday, warning that the planes require a software update. An ...

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 ...

Modern aircraft generate an astonishing amount of data in flight. Every parameter from engine performance to flight control ...

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 ...

In a statement, Airbus said a recent incident showed that solar flares could interfere with and corrupt data essential to the aircraft's flight-control systems. “These recommendations will lead to ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering immediate repairs to 6,000 of its widely used A320 family of jets in a sweeping recall affecting more than half the global fleet, ...