{"id":43867,"date":"2025-12-03T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=43867"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:14:08","slug":"c3v19q3r31roat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/03\/c3v19q3r31roat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus to inspect some planes over &#8216;quality issue&#8217; with panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Airbus has confirmed an unspecified number of its aircraft will undergo inspections after a &#8220;supplier quality issue&#8221; with metal panels used on some A320 planes was identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The problem, which the firm said impacts a &#8220;limited number&#8221; of planes, comes days after thousands of the same model were grounded for an urgent software update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Tuesday, the European manufacturer said it was taking a &#8220;conservative approach&#8221; by checking all planes that could be affected, even though not all are expected to need repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The company told AFP news agency around 600 A320s, a model widely used by major airlines, could be impacted. Airbus did not confirm the number in its response to the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;The source of the issue has been identified, contained and all newly produced panels conform to all requirements,&#8221; Airbus&#8217;s spokesperson told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A statement continued: &#8220;Only inspections will determine where an aircraft may have panels with quality issues and the appropriate action to be taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">AFP reported Airbus as saying the number of planes that needed to be checked was &#8220;reducing day by day as inspections progress to identify those needing a specific action to be taken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC has contacted major airlines that use the A320, including British Airways, American Airlines, Korean Air, Lufthansa Airlines and Delta for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Earlier 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">That issue was discovered after a plane travelling between the US and Mexico suddenly lost altitude as a result of the vulnerability, injuring 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">More than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needed emergency computer updates in one of the largest ever aviation industry recalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It resulted in global disruption and flight cancellations over the final weekend of November, a busy time of the year for travel &#8211; particularly in the US, where it coincided with Thanksgiving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Airbus shares have fallen by more than 6.5% in the past five days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Airbus #inspect #planes #quality #issue #panels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus has confirmed an unspecified number of its aircraft will undergo inspections after a &#8220;supplier quality issue&#8221; with metal panels&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43869,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867\/revisions\/43869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}