The Oct. 30 incident saw the plane rapidly lose altitude and sent at least 15 to 20 people to the hospital.

Air-ground radio communications have revealed that a JetBlue Airbus A320 crew in the Caribbean was startled by a US Air Force tanker in their vicinity which apparently did not have its transponder active.

How the JetBlue A320 triggered fleet-wide checks demonstrated the fragility and the resilience of today’s software-driven aviation systems . The hidden fragility of modern aviation revealed by a single A320: The Airbus weekend crisis .

Airbus has ordered urgent software fixes on about 6,000 A320 jets after a JetBlue scare tied to solar-radiation data corruption, disrupting flights worldwide.

JetBlue Airways has modestly reduced expectations for its year-end operational performance in response to a trio of disruptions - Hurricane Melissa, the US federal government shutdown and the global grounding of Airbus A320-family jets.

Dozens of airlines from Asia to the United States said they had carried out a snap software retrofit ordered by Airbus, and mandated by global regulators, after a vulnerability to solar flares emerged in a recent mid-air incident on a JetBlue A320.

LONDON (AP) — Airbus said that most of its fleet of 6,000 A320 passenger jets have received an update to fix a software glitch that could have affected flight controls.

Prototype slated to be installed on the first aircaft in JUNE 2026 with installations beginning in AUGUST for the A320s at approx. 20 aircraft per month. The aggressive timeline means JetBlue will retrofit approximately 20 aircraft every month once installations begin in August 2026.