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Aviation regulator DGCA connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) said Indian carriers person completed the bundle upgrades connected 323 operational A320 household planes to code a imaginable contented related to formation controls.
On Friday (November 28, 2025), Airbus said aggravated star radiation mightiness corrupt information captious to formation controls successful a important fig of A320 household craft and that the bundle changes required to hole the contented would pb to operational disruptions.
A full of 338 A320 household craft with the 3 Indian airlines— IndiGo, Air India and Air India Express— were initially identified for the bundle upgrades to code the issue.
Among them, 323 were operational, six were nether basal attraction and aboriginal it was recovered that the upgrades were nary needed for 9 specified planes successful the fleet of Air India, according to a elder DGCA official.
IndiGo has completed the upgrades connected each the 200 of its operational A320 household planes.
Air India had 113 affected craft and retired of them, the upgrades person been done for the operational 100 planes portion 4 are nether basal attraction and 9 craft did not necessitate the modifications, arsenic per the official.
In the lawsuit of Air India Express, upgrades person been carried retired for 23 A320 household planes and 2 specified craft are nether attraction for redelivery.
On Saturday (November 29, 2025), the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued an Airworthiness Directive to airlines asking Indian operators to transportation retired the requisite bundle upgrades immediately.
This followed Airbus issuing an alert to operators globally and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) coming retired with an Emergency Airworthiness Directive regarding the imaginable issue.
On Friday, EASA said Airbus asked hose operators to instal a serviceable Elevator Aileron Computer (ELAC) successful the impacted aircraft. ELAC is for formation controls.
