{"id":160531,"date":"2024-12-22T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T10:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-atlantic-airbus-a330-900neo-grounded-autopilot-malfunctions\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T10:53:37","slug":"virgin-atlantic-airbus-a330-900neo-grounded-for-3-days-due-to-autopilot-malfunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=160531","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-900neo Grounded For 3 Days Due To Autopilot Malfunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Virgin Atlantic             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a330-900\/\"  >Airbus A330-900<\/a><\/span> was grounded for three days after experiencing multiple systems failures (including the autopilot and CPDLC systems). The incident happened on flight VS-118 en route from Miami to             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259797\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-heathrow-airport\/\"  >London Heathrow Airport<\/a><\/span>. Autopilots have made the pilot&#8217;s job of flying the aircraft much easier and have         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033552\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/early-autopilot-systems-history\/\" >evolved significantly over the years<\/a><\/span>.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2031000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-atlantic-founding-history\/\" >Virgin Atlantic is a British airline and has recently celebrated its 40th year of operations<\/a><\/span> (it is notable for being one of the few airlines that only operate widebody aircraft). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new A330 was grounded for three days after the aircraft suffered autopilot malfunctions flying across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,14847,13240,423,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-autopilot","category-commercial-aviation","category-united-states","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160532,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160531\/revisions\/160532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}