Ryanair jet forced to abort landing over mysterious GPS ‘jamming’ near NATO border with Russia
A Ryanair jet was forced to abort landing over mysterious GPS “jamming” near NATO’s border with Russia.
A Ryanair flight from the UK was forced to abort landing due to a mysterious GPS interference issue near NATO’s border with Russia.
The jet and it’s passengers – who were about to land in Lithuania – were forced to desperately divert to Poland, The Sun reports.
The flight – which departed from London’s Luton airport on Thursday – had started its descent into Vilnius Airport before it made a quick change.
The plane started lowering into the airport before it desperately lifted off again and flew 400 kilometres away into Warsaw, Poland.
A spokesperson for Lithuania’s air navigation confirmed the flight experienced a “GPS signal interference” and the quick decision was made by the pilot.
“All other planes were landing at the airport as usual,” they said on Friday.
The shock move, so close to Russia’s border with NATO, came after Estonia and Finland blamed Russia for jamming GPS navigation devices in the region’s airspace last year.
Lithuania’s Defence Minister confirmed an investigation was launched into the worrying incident.
Russia has denied these claims but a European airport suspended all of it’s flights for an entire month last year due to the “extremely dangerous” issue.
Estonia’s second largest airport in Tartu had to dramatically cancel their flights for weeks after two Finnair planes were forced to return to Helsinki.
Several airports in eastern Finland were even forced to reintroduced radio navigation equipment, in wake of the terrifying trend.
Thursday’s incident has not been the only one to affect Vilnius airport in recent months.
Over 800 instances of GPS interference have been reported over the last three months of 2024, Lithuanian air navigation said.
This shocking number was a huge jump from the 124 reported over the same time in 2023.
Putin reportedly holds a top secret war weapon dubbed Tobol, known to severely jam plane signals.
This piece of evil Russian technology has been commonly used to interfere with the GPS guidance of airliners and ships along NATO’s Eastern peripheries, according to military experts.
Around 4,000 British holiday flights were hit with delays believed to have been caused by the dangerous tech, it was reported early last year.
Mad Vlad’s weapons are thought to send bogus data forcing commercial planes to swerve and dive to avoid phantom obstacles that were not really there.
The Tobol device is believed to be kept at Russia’s military territory in Kaliningrad, between Lithuania and Poland.
Images online show a large satellite dish mounted on the ground at the Kaliningrad base that many believe is the Tobol in action.
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Reports have suggested there are ten of these terrifying devices across Russia.
Experts have not confirmed what the tyrant is using the devious devices for but some believe it could act as an invisible shield over bases to protect them from NATO’s arsenal of satellite-guided missiles.
It is designed to ruin satellite signals resulting in any weapon, jet, or other device completely missing their target.
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