The BBC reports that "[e]arlier this week, thousands of Airbus planes were grounded for a software update after it was discovered that intense solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers."
That issue was discovered after a plane travelling between the US and Mexico suddenly lost altitude as a result of the vulnerability, injuring 15.
More than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needed emergency computer updates in one of the largest ever aviation industry interventions.
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