EASA emergency airworthiness directive for A319/320/321 fleet 28Nov 2025. Immediate Grounding for many

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EASA has issued an EAD on 28 November 2025 for the global fleet of A319/320/321 after an uncommanded pitch down in a JetBlue A320 on 30 October 2520

This will affect operators such as JQ.

Here is the Airbus statement.

Effectively all affected aircraft are immediately grounded, though some airlines started to make the fix before the EASA EAD

Avherald report on the Incident

EAD:

 

[RooFlyer]

The AFR reports , on-line:

Airbus cautioned that more than half of its active A320 jetliner family fleet will need a software fix after a recent incident involving a JetBlue Airways airliner revealed that “intense solar radiation” could corrupt data that helps maintain functioning flight controls.

Airbus:

Airbus update on A320 Family precautionary fleet action

Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical. Read more.

www.airbus.com

 

[Saab34]

Jetstar have said engineers need the aircraft for 1-2 hours.

 

[Quickstatus]

The solutions are to roll back the software to an earlier iteration or replace the ELAC computer. But if the spare hardware is also affected, it can't be used.