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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Imagine the increased confidence among pilots if airplane controls seamlessly blended their intuition with next-generation technology. BAE Systems is innovating flight critical control systems that ...

Because of their many redundancies, electronic fly-by-wire controls are actually far safer than traditional hydraulic ones. Any pilot who has ever done a pre-flight check on a Cessna or a Bonanza ...

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 ...