GPS spoofing hits flights at 7 big Indian airports
Flights at major airports—including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Amritsar, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai—recently faced GPS spoofing incidents.
India's Civil Aviation Minister confirmed these incidents on December 1, highlighting how fake signals tried to interfere with aircraft navigation.
Why should you care?
GPS spoofing can confuse pilots about where their planes actually are—a pretty big deal for flight safety.
At Delhi airport, it even disrupted satellite-based landings and forced pilots to switch to backup plans.
Thankfully, regular navigation systems kept things running smoothly and flights continued safely without disruption due to spoofing.
Now the government is stepping up cybersecurity for aviation and tracking down the source of these fake signals to keep future flights safe.