00:00And well Airbus A320 glitch causes airlines in India to scramble.
00:05Air travel in India and abroad is likely to face disruptions this weekend
00:09as thousands of Airbus A320 family aircraft undergo a mandatory software update
00:15prompting temporary groundings.
00:17The problem surfaced during a JetBlue Airways A320 flight B6-1230
00:23from Cancun to Nuwark on the 30th of October
00:27when the plane experienced an uncommanded pitch down at 35,000 feet
00:33injuring at least 15 passengers and forcing an emergency landing at Tampa in Florida.
00:38Indigo, Air India and Air India Express are expected to face operational disruptions.
00:44Indigo in a statement informed that the airline is undertaking all required inspections
00:48and is working closely with European Union Aviation Safety Agency and Airbus
00:54around 400 flights in India are likely to face delays due to problem.
00:59Meanwhile, DGCA has issued a notice and is monitoring the crisis very closely.
01:04Now, DGCA has confirmed that Airbus realized zeroed down
01:11that it was possibly because of the malfunction in the ELAC system
01:17as one of the major contributing factors for this particular incident without naming JetBlue.
01:24So, it is essentially the software update and the hardware update in regards to the ELAC system
01:32which is triggering this global aviation crisis at this point in time.
01:37Now, speaking of India, nearly 338 aircrafts in India with Indigo, Air India and Air India Express
01:46are of A320 series and Ministry of Civil Aviation's Directorate General of Civil Aviation
01:54issued most urgent notice in this particular regard
01:58for bringing mandatory modifications in airbuses A319, 320 as well as 321 series aircrafts
02:08that are operational with Indian aviation flyers or operators.
02:13Air India is claiming that it has already resolved or reset the modifications
02:18as required by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
02:2240% of the crafts in its fleet has been already reset.
02:27However, the biggest impact of this crisis or disruption is likely to happen on Indigo
02:33because Indigo happens to run nearly 200 of Airbus 320 crafts
02:40and that is why the major impact could be on Indigo.
02:44On one side, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency has already issued airworthiness directive
02:51in this regard. Airbus is in contact with the operators and India's DGCA has also issued mandatory modifications
02:59for the operators to carry out immediately.
03:03It is impacting the aviation sector not only in India but across the globe.
03:09With video journalist Loke Indra Pandey, this is Amit Bhardwaj reporting for India Today from Delhi.
03:13It's not a long-term grounding of the aircraft like what we're seeing on the MD-11 after the crash in Louisville from UPS.
03:23But this sounds like a fairly quick, short-term software update.
03:29They're actually telling operators to go back to a prior version of the software that may not be as susceptible.
03:34And even then, you know, the extent to which certain aircraft are affected may vary.
03:40United Airlines has come out and said that their fleet of A320s are not affected.
03:44So there may be, you know, certain vintages or so forth that, you know, may have more vulnerability than others.
03:51But, you know, this is something that they said, Airbus said that it should be a fix of up to three hours.
03:57So that's something that can be addressed.
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