Airbus A320 repairs must be before next flight, bulletin shows

PARIS (Reuters) -Airlines affected by a sweeping recall of Airbus A320 jets to fix a software glitch must carry out the work before the next flight, excluding any re-positioning flight to a repair base, an Airbus bulletin to airlines showed on Friday.

The document, seen by Reuters, traced the issue to a computer known as ELAC (Elevator and Aileron Computer), which sends commands to elevators that control the plane's pitch or nose angle. Its manufacturer, France's Thales, said in response to a Reuters query that the functionality in question is supported by software that is not under Thales' responsibility.

(Reporting by Tim Hepher, Editing by Louise Heavens)

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