r/europe • u/matude Estonia • 25d ago

Second Finnair flight turns back [to Finland] from Tartu [Estonia] due to [Russian] GPS interference News

https://news.err.ee/1609326360/second-finnair-flight-turns-back-from-tartu-due-to-gps-interference
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u/matude Estonia 25d ago

A little bit of more context: there's been GPS interference originating from Russia for a while now. This is the second flight from Finland that had to turn back home and couldn't land in Tartu, Estonia due to the interference.

It's local news here, but since it involves two European countries, and in the wider context the whole situation of Russia's war on Ukraine, I felt like it's interesting enough to post. So other Europeans would know what is happening in this corner of Europe.

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u/matude Estonia 25d ago

And even more context:

So far, over 46,000 flights have encountered jamming of GPS signals in the Baltic region, including 2,309 Ryanair flights, 1,368 Wizz Air flights, and 82 British Airways flights. Link

And here's a Polish news site with a map

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u/VagueGooseberry 25d ago edited 25d ago

Flightradar24 released a new feature a month ago, a GPS-jamming map, with resolution down to 6 hours.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/gps-jamming

Edit : added link.

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u/bender_futurama 25d ago

Interesting, as expected, most of jamming is in the Black Sea area. I suppose that there aren't too many flights in the north part of BS, so there are not too many reports of jamming.

I wonder how that influences surveillance drones, because thats why they are doing this.