solar flares affecting flights?

 

from Phil Inquirer; 

PAL, Cebu Pacific cancel domestic flights after Airbus technical advisory....

In a statement, Airbus said its advisory stemmed from an analysis of a recent incident involving an A320 Family aircraft, which revealed that “intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.”

from CNN:

Thousands of passenger planes need to be fixed to avoid pilots losing control during a solar storm...Thousands of the most popular passenger aircraft in the world need immediate maintenance to protect from a problem that injured passengers and caused an emergency landing last month...

.“Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls,” Airbus said in a statement.

so sort of a Carrington event?

and what about modern weapons that could do this?