5,900+ A320s Modified In 2 Days As Under 100 Remain Grounded

Airbus, and operators of the multinational European planemaker’s A320 family of narrowbody twinjet commercial aircraft, experienced a rather more eventful end to November than would ideally have been the case. Last Friday, it became clear that around 6,000 of these single-aisle planes would require a software update, following an incident where passengers were injured after aJetBlue flight lost altitude due to a glitch.