In the first four months of the year, Russian signal interference disrupted navigation systems on nearly 123,000 flights across the airspace of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic states, and Poland, as reported by OMNI.
In April alone, an average of 27.4% of flights were affected, with some areas seeing disruptions on up to 42% of flights, according to a report by the International Civil Aviation Organization. The report emphasized that such interference poses a serious threat to flight safety.
Andreas Holmgren, head of the Swedish Transport Agency’s relevant division, warned that the situation remains extremely dangerous, noting that the number of disruptions is not decreasing but actually increasing.
“These disruptions range from false location signals to complete loss of navigation, which can affect an aircraft throughout its entire journey to the destination,” he said.
The problems are attributed to Russian jamming installations placed in multiple cities, which interfere with standard aviation navigation systems and pose a continuing risk to both commercial and private flights.
