Over 120 thousand flight disturbances in Europe. “The situation is serious”
Almost 123,000 flights in Sweden and neighboring countries, including in Finland, encountered disturbances due to signals flowing from Russia. The incidents were also reported in Polish airspace.
This data is alert. The Swedish SVT television station reported that during the first four months of this year there was a disturbance a signal of almost 123,000 flights in Sweden and neighboring countries, including Finland. They influenced connections supported by 365 airlines.
Russia interferes with flights in Europe. Over 120 thousand incidents
The data comes from a report submitted by the Baltic Sea countries to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). According to SVT, the authorities managed to determine that Russia is the source of these disturbances, the disturbances flowing from Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Smolensk and Rostov. The report refers to the incidents in the airspace of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States and Poland.
“We believe that the situation is serious because we are observing a steady increase in the number of interfering incidents,” said Andreas Holmgren from the Swedish transport agency in an interview with the Swedish sender.
Serious interference also occurred during the journey of the head of the EC Ursula von der Leyen from Warsaw to Bulgaria. The plane chairwoman of the EC on board had to land in emergency without the support of the GPS system. According to officials, interference from Russia was responsible for interference.
Is flying safe?
On thousands of passenger flights over Europe, he reported “The Sun” about the interference of the GPS signal in thousands of passenger flights. These events concerned in particular flights in the Baltic Sea region, including Poland, and to Turkey and Cyprus.
On this occasion, Ryanair spokesman admitted that “in recent years there has been an increase in sporadic GPS interference, which has happened to all airlines.” “Ryanair aircraft have many location identifying systems, including GPS. If any of the location systems, such as GPS, does not work, the crew, as part of standard operational procedures, switches to one of the alternative systems,” he explained.
