GPS is essential to control remote devices or direct them to Misiones directly, so that advanced drones are always one of the main objectives of hackers, especially in battlefields.
This seems that It has been a long time with commercial airplanesor at least that is what the former pilot Gérard Feldzer warns, who has analyzed the interference suffered by Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission.
Yes, those same aerial vehicles where you could travel from Spain to another country, can be in danger if they are intervened by external entities. In this case, it has been a common model in which politics was going, which He acted strange for a moment when he was about to land. The aforementioned specialist believes that it is a warning, but it is not a reason for it to crash.
The problem with the plane could be a common hacking or interference
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Since this terrifying event happened on Sunday, August 31, in full landing in Bulgaria, It has registered as a possible cyber attack from Russia. How is it known, the great country of Asia, has been involved in various hacking events, both for the Ukraine conflict, and by investigations to the United States, but also to publicize its «capacity» to European countries.
According to what the Gérard Feldzer mentions in a 20mminute report, being president of Aviation without borders and vice president of Paris Portsis that the interruption of the GPS signal in this situation could have been intentional in order to generate an accident to Highlight an alert from the country led by Vladimir Putin.
It is believed that the premeditated act is directed to Europe as an intimidation strategy. Apparently, it could be A way to demonstrate that they have the means to hack A part of the system if they need it.
«There is no formal evidence, but everything indicates that it comes from that sector. It is a way of telling Europeans who are able to cause the maximum problems attacking all airplanes.»
In the explanation he says that he could have treated a hacking, but also an interference that could be given at any time for certain problems. The good news is that «air traffic control services immediately proposed an alternative approach to landing using land navigation media» and this is how the pilot He could do the landing at the Plovdiv airport without problems.
Of course, it is something that has caused a great uproar for the consequences that could bring something like this, but the reality is that «it is not dangerous» because there are several redundant procedures and systems, precisely for prevent total GPS dependence. In this way, if something in this signal fails, it goes to terrestrial navigation, inertial and radio navigation.
«We are not going to lose any plane because of this. The airplanes will fly in a time while waiting for the return of the satellites, and then they will land elsewhere. We could also return to almost manual techniques. The main airports are equipped with radiobalizes, large antennas that emit signals and allow the plane to be positioned quite accurately.»
During flights, the ship can go through an area with interference or in situations like this, it is quickly resolved by alternating with another method. Considering that this is just a simple blockade, confirms that there is nothing to worry about.
None of the airplanes should have an inconvenience as serious as crashing because civil aviation has worked for many years to have ways to avoid these threats, even when GPS becomes misleading and points an incorrect address or place.
In addition, in the event that an airport has that dependence on a single form of location, it is blocked and prevents landing to move to another airport that ensures the arrival. Feldzer ends by mentioning that although there may be risks, «we can do without GPS, as we did 15 years ago.»
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Tags: Airplanes, Russia, GPS, Hackers