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GPS 'jamming' hitting thousands of European flights

10:30 am on 12 May 2024

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With a reported 46,000 aircraft citing sat-nav problems over the Baltic Sea between August and March, suspected Russian GPS “jamming” is now being considered a major threat to air safety. 

Shawn Pruchnicki is a former airline pilot who's now a professor of aviation safety at Ohio State University. 

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