How Unprecedented Is Airbus’ 6,000-Jet Recall?

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00:00And just a few days ago, as I mentioned, and you just said, we witnessed Airbus recalling

00:056,000 A320s, and that was due to the software issue that they had. That seems to be under

00:12control now. But how unprecedented is the scale of this particular recall? Because 6,000 aircraft

00:22sounds like a lot. Yeah, it is a lot. And had it been a different type of problem, it would have

00:30caused major disruption and really serious financial issues for the airlines and for Airbus

00:38themselves. But we have to bear in mind that the Airbus is a fly-by-wire aircraft. So the pilots are

00:48connected to a bank of computers, which all operate with several levels of redundancy in

00:55order to make it safe. And what happened here was that the solar flare, it had an impact on

01:03some of the electronic input. And older aircraft were actually ironically not affected as badly,

01:11because this is a problem that has been known about for some years in terms of general physics.

01:18So the more sophisticated, more modern aircraft were more vulnerable. They resolved that with

01:26an update and a software change. And I don't really, I think because it was software, it was able to be

01:35completed on the majority of aircraft within two or three hours. Otherwise, the disruption would have

01:40been much, much greater.

01:42So I will take care of the plan.