Three passengers who were on a JetBlue Airbus A320 airplane that suddenly experienced an “uncompounded loss of altitude” due to a suspected fault with the flight control system are now suing Airbus for allowing an “unreasonably dangerous” glitch in the autopilot system to go unchecked.
The software glitch led to an emergency worldwide recall in late November, which resulted in an estimated 6,000 Airbus A320 series aircraft needing urgent remedial work before they were allowed to fly again.
While Airbus initially said that intense solar radiation could be behind the software glitch, the passengers question whether this was really the case, and accuse JetBlue of having been aware of a recurring issue with the autopilot system before the accident.
Edit: Mateusz Maszczynski
