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Airlines Make Quick Work Of Airbus A320 Family Updates
Airbus has reported that the overwhelming majority of Airbus A320 family units affected by the ELAC issue (reported on November 28th) have since been updated. (www.gatechecked.com) More...
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Regarding this theoretical concept that solar radiation might have corrupted the ELAC computer chip... By rolling back the software, I might assume the 'older software' passes through the same microchip? If so, what improvement was made by rolling back the software?
Solar radiation can corrupt electronic chips, so the software must be designed to detect such corruption (redundancy?). A software update could accidentally remove that protection, so rolling back would restore it. This was a one-off event in millions of A320 flights, rapidly and even drastically corrected by grounding all aircraft. Reassuring reaction.
