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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yokes or sidesticks? Moving throttles or fixed detents? The choices pilots face reveal a deeper divide in cockpit design ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A software issue on Airbus A320 airplanes required an urgent update on approximately 6,000 planes worldwide. Regulators issued an emergency directive requiring airlines to fix the software before the ...

European regulators issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive grounding specific Airbus A319, A320, and A321 aircraft after an "uncommanded and limited pitch down" incident on a JetBlue flight, ...

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 ...

An issue with Airbus A320 airplanes has largely been resolved, the company said in an update published on Monday. Over the weekend, airlines worldwide worked around the clock to comply with an urgent ...