Separatists jam GPS systems of civilian planes over Karabakh Hundreds of people at risk

Illegal Armenian armed formations on the territory of Azerbaijan, where the Russian peacekeeping contingent is temporarily stationed, use radio interference against GPS satellite navigation systems of passenger airplanes of domestic and foreign airlines, which use Azerbaijan’s airspace.

The Defence Ministry told Caliber.Az that as a result of the application of radio interference on July 13 from 11:54 to 12:07 and from 13:02 to 13:17 against the passenger plane Gulfstream G280 of Azerbaijan Airlines, which was flying on the routes Zangilan-Fizuli and Fizuli-Baku, there was a failure in its GPS satellite navigation system.

"The fact of the use of radio interference by illegal Armenian armed formations against the GPS satellite navigation systems of passenger aeroplanes has been recorded before. Despite repeated appeals to the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent that such cases pose a serious threat to the safety of air transportation, no measures were taken," the Defence Ministry said.