Indian airlines complete software upgrades for 323 operational A320 family planes

This comes after a potential issue related to flight controls arose, following which Airbus said that intense solar radiation might corrupt data critical to flight controls in a significant number of A320 family aircraft. It further said that software changes required to fix the issue were being made, and these would disrupt flight operations.

Initially, a total of 338 aircraft from the Indian A320 fleet – belonging to carriers IndiGo, Air India and Air India Express – were identified for software upgrades to fix the issue, PTI news agency reported.

Among these, 323 aircraft were operational, six were under base maintenance, and it was later decided that upgrades were not needed for nine of them in the Air India fleet, a senior DGCA official told PTI.