Viva Aerobus and Volaris completed the software update on 176 aircraftin response to an instruction issued by Airbus and supervised by the Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC).
The order required more than six thousand A320 aircraft to urgently replace a flight control system that was vulnerable to solar radiation.
According to the report, Viva Aerobus concluded the process in its entire assigned fleet (90 of 90 aircraft), while Volaris has seven devices pending to be updatedafter completing 86 of its 93 aircraft.
Both airlines had warned that this procedure could generate delays, adjustments to itineraries or cancellations during the weekend to guarantee compliance with the update.
The AFAC received the progress report from the airlines today, November 29, at 1:30 p.m.
The measure by Airbus is taken after a technical incident at the end of October in the United States where a device “revealed that intense solar radiation could corrupt data essential for the operation of flight commands.”
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