The story so far: Airbus ordered software and hardware upgrades to an estimated 6,000 of its widely flown Airbus A320 family of aircraft across the world. This followed from an investigation of an inflight incident, on October 30, 2025, involving JetBlue flight B61230 from Cancun Mexico to Newark in the U.S., a distance of about 2,500 kilometres with a flight time of about three hours 30 minutes. The airline is a U.S.-based low-cost airline.

Flight B6-1230 was in U.S. airspace at about 35,000 feet when the aircraft experienced what was termed as an inflight upset that left some of the passengers injured and in need of medical aid on the ground. The crew, who reported flight control issues, decided to land in Tampa, Florida about 25 minutes after the incident, which was identified as an “uncommanded pitch-down event even as the autopilot was engaged”.

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