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		MarkusQ 85 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airbus grounds A320 aircraft amid solar radiation ... Good point. Digging through the links (eight or nine deep) you eventually come to the actual directive: https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_AD_2025_0268_E.pdf/EAD_2... It looks like the fix it to replace the elevator aileron computer (ELAC), which sounds like a hardware fix, not a software update rollback. But that sort of detail often doesn't survive repeated rounds of journalism.

JohannMac 85 days ago [–]

I think that depends on the given aircraft’s configuration. Some it’s just a software change (revert to older version I think).

There are two of those units in each aircraft.

dboreham 85 days ago | [–]

Still therefore confused how software knows about photons originating in the sun.

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