Metro UK
By Lucia Botfield
Published Mar 26, 2024, 10:57am
|Updated Mar 26, 2024, 4:08pm
More than 1,600 planes have been hit by GPS interference in less than two days, in what is thought to be an effort by Russia to create an ‘atmosphere of threat’.
Many of the aircraft affected by the mysterious jamming of navigational equipment over eastern Europe were carrying civilians.
Such interference poses serious issues for pilots, as it can force them to contend with fake signals that give false information about the plane’s position in the sky.