[belter]

Emergency Airworthiness Directive 2025-0268-E: https://ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E

https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_AD_2025_0268_E.pdf/EAD_2...

This was the incident that triggered the investigation:

https://avherald.com/h?article=52f1ffc3&opt=0

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/30/us/jetblue-flight-emergen...

List of Airbus A320 family operators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A320_family_ope...

[bgwalter]

According to the airworthiness directive:

  Affected ELAC: Elevator aileron computer (ELAC) ELAC B L104

  Serviceable ELAC: ELAC B L103+

So it's a regression that affects decades old aircraft. Of course Airbus is now also meddling with "AI":

https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/digital-transformation/...

Obviously there no direct connection here, but it seems that destabilizing perfectly working aircraft could be the product of a culture shift.

[kergonath]

> Obviously there no direct connection here, but it seems that destabilizing perfectly working aircraft could be the product of a culture shift.

A culture shift following a fad in the last couple of years that caused "a regression" (whatever you mean by that) in an aircraft that was made years before, and that was designed years before again? How would that work? They can stop selling aircrafts if they have a time machine.

[bgwalter]

The regression is obviously ELAC B L104 vs. ELAC B L103+. The culture shift (if there was one) would obviously have affected the latest L104.

I begin to revise my opinion about LLMs. An LLM would not have misunderstood the comment that badly.

[jjcob]

Can you expand on that? Do you have any knowledge about those parts except their part numbers?

[mosura]

From what I have heard of how much Airbus pay people . . “Much” is the wrong word.