Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Airbus dropped its delivery target for the year by 30 planes after it identified a fuselage issue in the A320 line that needs inspection.
The French company said it will deliver around 790 commercial planes this year instead of the 820 original target.
The company already had an issue that required a software fix for 6,000 planes over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, disrupting flights.
About 15 passengers aboard a JetBlue flight on Oct. 31 were hospitalized after the plane suddenly lost altitude. It then made an emergency landing in Tampa, Fla. It was headed to Newark, N.J.
The company then found the issue with metal panels on some of its planes. The inspections need to be done on 628 planes, which includes 168 that are already in service, 245 on assembly lines, and 215 in an earlier stage of production, The Guardian reported.
