The Sun Really Said 'Nah' to Airbus Planes and Now 6,000 Aircraft Are Having a Moment ☀️

Bestie, the sun is literally cyberbullying airplanes right now 💀

So apparently, while we were all worried about our phones overheating in the sun, nobody thought to ask if 6,000 Airbus planes could handle some spicy solar radiation. Plot twist: they absolutely cannot.

Fr fr, these aircraft are having a whole existential crisis because the sun decided to serve up some intense radiation that’s straight up bullying their flight control systems. It’s giving ‘technology vs nature’ energy, and spoiler alert - nature is winning.

The tea is SCALDING ☕

Airbus really had to tell airlines “Hey bestie, so funny story… the sun might make your planes forget how to plane. ” The audacity!

Thousands of flights got grounded faster than your crush leaves you on read because engineers discovered that solar radiation could mess with the onboard computers.

These planes need either an urgent software update (basically a really expensive iPhone update) or completely new computers. The repair bill is about to be more expensive than your student loans, and that’s saying something.

Airlines are NOT having it

Airline executives are probably in their offices like “Are you telling me the SUN broke my planes? ” Meanwhile, passengers are stuck in airports giving major NPC energy, just standing around wondering why their flight got cancelled by a star that’s 93 million miles away.

The whole aviation industry really said “we can conquer the skies” but forgot to check if the skies would conquer them back. Solar radiation really understood the assignment and chose chaos.

The fix is giving ‘IT department energy’

Engineers are basically telling airlines to “have you tried turning it off and on again? ” but make it aviation. Some planes just need a software patch (because apparently airplanes run on Windows Vista or something), while others need their whole computer system yeeted and replaced.

It’s lowkey hilarious that we can make metal tubes fly through the air at 500mph, but a little extra sunshine has everyone pressed. No cap, Mother Earth said “y’all have been polluting my atmosphere, time for some payback” and honestly?

She ate that.