Airbus said on Monday that it had identified a quality problem in metal panels on some of its A320 jets, days after it found a software glitch that affected about 6,000 jets worldwide.
The European plane maker that the source of the problem has been identified and contained.
“Airbus is taking a conservative approach and is inspecting all aircraft potentially impacted – knowing that only a portion of them will need further action to be taken,” it said in a statement.
“All newly produced panels conform to all requirements,” it added.
Airbus did not provide details about how many jets were affected by the supplier quality problem.
The company's shares were down nearly 6 per cent at 6.50pm UAE time on Monday, after dropping by more than 10 per cent earlier in the day in the wake of a Reuters report about the problem.
That came after the company said on Monday that the “vast majority” of
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