The Economic Times reports:
The government on Monday confirmed that several major airports — including Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru — detected GPS spoofing signals last month, but assured that flight operations were not affected. The clarification came in the Rajya Sabha amid growing concern over a recent navigation scare at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA).
In his reply to MP Niranjan Reddy, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said that spoofing signals were picked up near the Delhi airport during GPS-based landing procedures on runway 10. He said the Wireless Monitoring Organisation (WMO) has been deployed to trace the source.
“Some flights reported GPS spoofing in the vicinity of IGIA, New Delhi while using GPS-based landing procedures, while approaching on RWY (runway) 10. Contingency procedures were used for GPS spoofed flights approaching to RWY 10,” Naidu told the House.
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