Within less than a month, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued two airworthiness directives addressing issues detected in certain members of the Airbus A320 family – the A321neo and A320neo. The issues, although of different origins and appearing under specific conditions, relate to the aircraft’s angle of attack protection and could potentially lead to an excessive pitch scenario, the agency stated. Some aviation professionals have noted that the issue in both cases is similar to the one that the MCAS software on the Boeing 737 MAX was developed to address.