Airbus recalled up to 6,000 A320 jets over a software flaw tied to solar radiation.

Airbus issued an urgent directive on a “significant number" of A320 family aircraft, potentially disrupting travel. Here’s what we know.

By Tim Hepher, Allison Lampert, Dan Catchpole and David Shepardson PARIS (Reuters) -Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering immediate repairs to 6,000 of its widely used A320 family of jets in a sweeping recall affecting more than half the global fleet,

The ITA Airways plane required a technician and parts to be flown in from Rome to Istanbul

EASA issues an emergency directive after Airbus identifies a fault in an A320 flight-control computer linked to an uncommanded pitch event, requiring immediate action.

The change must be carried out before the next routine flight, and is among the largest mass recalls affecting Airbus.

Aurora Flight Sciences is quietly turning a radical research sketch into metal, bolting on 30 ft wings that will help prove whether a jet can steer with air instead of moving parts. The X-65, built for DARPA’s Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program,

American agency DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences say the fuselage of the X-65 active flow control (AFC) demonstrator will be ready in January 2026.

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape and awaits its radical wing design.