{"id":425549,"date":"2025-12-05T03:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:23:16","slug":"jetblue-plane-that-suddenly-plunged-could-have-been-hit-by-cosmic-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425549\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Plane That Suddenly Plunged Could Have Been Hit by Cosmic Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

A JetBlue plane that suddenly plummeted thousands of feet in October, sending 15 people on board to the hospital, could have been hit by a cosmic ray from a distant supernova explosion, a space expert said. The Airbus 320, which was headed from Cancun to New Jersey, was forced to make an emergency landing Oct. 30 in Tampa, Florida, after a fierce bout of turbulence, which Airbus claimed was caused by cosmic radiation from the sun interfering with the 20-year-old plane\u2019s navigation computer. However, Clive Dyer, a space and radiation expert from the University of Surrey, said radiation levels on Oct. 30 were unremarkable and not strong enough to affect the flight. Instead he said the flight was hit by \u201ca stream of high-energy particles from a distant star explosion that may have traveled millions of years before reaching Earth,\u201d according to Space.com<\/a>. \u201cCosmic rays can interact with modern microelectronics and change the state of a circuit,\u201d Dyer told the site. \u201cThey can cause a simple bit flip, like a 0 to one or one to 0. They can mess up information and make things go wrong. But they can cause hardware failures too, when they induce a current in an electronic device and burn it out.\u201d Airbus grounded 6,000 A320 jets following the incident and upgraded its software to protect them against future cosmic radiation. A September report showed an increase in solar activity from the sun, which could produce radiation \u201ca thousand times higher than cosmic rays, and then many aircraft could be bothered by it,\u201d Dyer added.<\/p>\n

Read it at Space.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A JetBlue plane that suddenly plummeted thousands of feet in October, sending 15 people on board to the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":425550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93163,96356,159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-425549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-airbus","9":"tag-aviation-accidents-and-incidents","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115664821032510991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}