Pilot of the aircraft carrying president von der Leyen experienced GPS issues as they approached Plovdiv airport, Bulgaria Sun Aug 31.
Recordings of tower and plane comms are clear.
Transponder reported good GPS-signal and is likely separate from the instrument pilots used.
Recordings of tower and plane comms are clear.
Transponder reported good GPS-signal and is likely separate from the instrument pilots used.
Half an hour after first reporting GPS-issues the aircraft of von der Leyen is taxiing on Plovdiv airport as the pilot repeats "we had GPS-issues" and thanks the flight controller for the support.
Full recordings with additional comms available at live-atc.net
Full recordings with additional comms available at live-atc.net
From this we can derive that the pilot did *experience* GPS/GNSS-issues.
Given the area and years of jamming it is likely to have been caused by the common jamming of area. Other explanations are possible.
Given the area and years of jamming it is likely to have been caused by the common jamming of area. Other explanations are possible.
Some institutions/people yesterday concluded from the ADS-b data that there were no issues with GPS. In my opinion that was a faulty conclusion taken on a very weak basis.
There were likely several receivers on board and the one our pilot looked at seem to have had issues. Or the pilot made a mistake, we cant say for certain with this. The flight data recorder likely can though =)
It is realistically possible it was a directed attack on v d Leyen but to say that we need more data, unlikely to surface but hopefully looked into by Bulgarian services/military.
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