Comment by oofbey

This is in response to JetBlue flight 1230 from Cancun to Newark on October 30, 2025, where a cosmic ray of some kind flipped a bit and caused a dangerous situation. At the time there was a minor (G1) geomagnetic storm - meaning more cosmic rays than normal. The Planetary K-index was at 5. These are somewhat elevated numbers - enough to produce a visible Aurora in Canada, but probably not even the northernmost US. But also this level of space weather is also very common. We hit G1 or higher about once a week. That's the really damning part. If it had happened in a G4 or G5 storm, then the engineers might have responded "we can't fix everything", but this level of reliability is clearly unacceptable.