The recalled aircraft include the latest A320neo model, some of which are basically brand new. Why would they be using flight computers from before 2002? Why is an old report from 2008, relating to a completely different aircraft type (A330), relevant to the A320 issue today?

> Why would they be using flight computers from before 2002?

Why would you assume they're not? I don't know about aircraft specifically, but there's plenty of hardware that uses components older than that. Microchip still makes 8051 clones 45 years after the 8051 was released.

Because the problem isn't just this. It's that the flight controller did not properly decide what to do when the data spiked because of this issue as well.

> Why would they be using flight computers from before 2002?

Guessing that using previously certified stuff is an advantage