NEW DELHI, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Private airlines in India said on Saturday that their teams of engineers were working on upgrading the necessary software updates in their respective A320 fleet, after Airbus issued a technical advisory for the global A320 fleet citing affects of solar radiation on flights controls.
The issue arose after the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive (EAD) to operators to ensure their aircraft had "serviceable" Elevator and Aileron Computers before further flights.
As per the Airbus, nearly 6000 A320 flights globally were affected by the technical glitch. Aviation experts said that it was a serious technical glitch and airline companies could take 7-8 hours to complete the software upgrading process.
India's private airline IndiGo announced that its engineers had already completed the mandatory Airbus safety update on 160 out of 200 AIB mandated A320-family aircraft.
Similarly, India's another private airline "Air India" too announced that its engineers were working on upgrading the software in the A320 fleet, and that it was already reset in 40 percent of its impacted flights. ■
