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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://toad.social/users/minorusaba/statuses/115633112363025916">Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Nov-2025 22:01:13 JST</a><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba" title="minorusaba@toad.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/139443-48-20230930221108.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Minoru Saba" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Minoru Saba</a></section><article><p>"The fix mainly involves reverting to earlier software"<br>"Airbus said a recent incident had revealed that solar flares may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls"<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-issues-major-a320-recall-after-flight-control-incident-2025-11-28/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-issues-major-a320-recall-after-flight-control-incident-2025-11-28/</a><br>🔸"may" seems to be the operative word in Airbus' statement. <br>Regardless, reverting to earlier version suggests problems with updated software.<br>Perhaps unrelated, but was reminded about the A300 crash at Nagoya Airport in 1994.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_140" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_140</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5907963#notice-11613157">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-11-29T22:01:13+09:00" title="Saturday, 29-Nov-2025 22:01:13 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/115633112363025916" rel="external" title="Sent from toad.social via ActivityPub">toad.social</a></span></span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/115633112363025916">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5507010">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_140">China Airlines Flight 140</a></h5><div></div></header><div>China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (serving Taipei, Taiwan) to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan.
On 26 April 1994, the Airbus A300 serving the route was completing a routine flight and approach, when, on approach to landing at Nagoya Airport, the takeoff/go-around setting (TO/GA) was inadvertently triggered. The pilots attempted to pitch the aircraft down while the autopilot, which was not disabled, was pitching the aircraft up. The aircraft ultimately stalled and crashed into the ground, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. The event remains the deadliest accident in the history of China Airlines, the second deadliest air crash in Japanese history after Japan Air Lines Flight 123, and the third deadliest air crash involving the Airbus A300.Aircraft
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A300B4-622R, registered as B-1816, manufacturer serial number 580. It was manufactured by Airbus Industrie on 29 January 1991 and was delivered to China Airlines on 2 February. It had logged 8572 hours and 12 minutes of...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Nov-2025 22:01:13 JST Minoru Saba
"The fix mainly involves reverting to earlier software"
"Airbus said a recent incident had revealed that solar flares may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls"
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-issues-major-a320-recall-after-flight-control-incident-2025-11-28/
🔸"may" seems to be the operative word in Airbus' statement.
Regardless, reverting to earlier version suggests problems with updated software.
Perhaps unrelated, but was reminded about the A300 crash at Nagoya Airport in 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_140
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  China Airlines Flight 140
  China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (serving Taipei, Taiwan) to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan. On 26 April 1994, the Airbus A300 serving the route was completing a routine flight and approach, when, on approach to landing at Nagoya Airport, the takeoff/go-around setting (TO/GA) was inadvertently triggered. The pilots attempted to pitch the aircraft down while the autopilot, which was not disabled, was pitching the aircraft up. The aircraft ultimately stalled and crashed into the ground, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. The event remains the deadliest accident in the history of China Airlines, the second deadliest air crash in Japanese history after Japan Air Lines Flight 123, and the third deadliest air crash involving the Airbus A300. Aircraft The aircraft involved was an Airbus A300B4-622R, registered as B-1816, manufacturer serial number 580. It was manufactured by Airbus Industrie on 29 January 1991 and was delivered to China Airlines on 2 February. It had logged 8572 hours and 12 minutes of...

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