In a safety information bulletin, visible on its website on Friday, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) warned against this phenomenon due either to a "jamming" of satellite positioning signals, or to their "usurpation".
The extent of these anomalies is different depending on the situation but they could, "in some cases, lead to changes in trajectory or even a change of destination because it was impossible to make a safe landing", declares the AESA while judging that the phenomenon is not such that it requires the suspension of flight operations.
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, significant disruptions of GPS signals have been reported in the region of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, the Baltic states and other neighboring states, the European agency said.
This phenomenon also affects "eastern Finland, the Black Sea and also "the eastern Mediterranean area near Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Israel, as well as northern Iraq. “, according to EASA.
In its bulletin, the agency invites all air transport players to report any anomalies they may observe and to be ready to use other navigation and approach tools at their disposal in the event of impossibility. to be able to rely on satellite navigation.
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