Jetstar has confirmed flights are unable to depart at this stage’ after one of the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturers issued an urgent upgrades warning.
The aeronautics company announced Friday that they have discovered a potential vulnerability in the software on board the Airbus A320 during solar storms, which may hinder pilots from steering or stabilising the plane while in the air.
Airbus issued an Alert Operators Transmission (AOT), a global warning that urges all airlines using the A320 passenger jet to immediately update their software and hardware to better protect against radiation interference.
‘Airbus has consequently identified a significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted,’ it said in a statement on Friday.
Thousands of planes will be affected around the globe, with Australian budget airline Jetstar confirming its services were ‘unable to depart’ on Saturday.
‘Due to an issue affecting Airbus A320 operators globally, some of Jetstar’s Airbus-operated flights are unable to depart at this stage,’ a Jetstar spokesperson said.
‘We’re working through the impacts on our fleet and to our customers. We’ll have more information shortly.
‘We apologise to customers for the inconvenience caused.’
Jetstar has confirmed flights are unable to depart at this stage’ after one of the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturers issued an urgent upgrades warning (pictured, a Jetstar plane)
Queues at Melbourne Airport are seen on Saturday morning
It’s understood the update will not impact Qantas flights.
Daily Mail has contacted Virgin Australia in regards to the update.
More to come.
