COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s nationwide service Finnair stated Thursday that it’s going to resume flights to Estonia’s 2nd greatest town in June after two of its planes have been averted from touchdown in Tartu closing month as a result of GPS disruptions.
The reason for the GPS interference that pressured the 2 flights to go back to Helsinki on April 25 and April 26 was once no longer right away recognized. Estonian officers blamed the jamming within the area on Russia.
Finnair stated Tartu Airport now makes use of radio alerts despatched from floor stations as a substitute of GPS alerts to direct airplane landings.
Jari Paajanen, head of Finnair’s operations keep watch over, thanked the Estonian Air Navigation Services and products for locating an alternate manner “so hastily.”
The airline stated previous this month that it was once postponing flying to Tartu till Might 31 as a result of the interference. The Finnish service, which is the one airline running world flights to Tartu, has flights from Helsinki to Tartu two times an afternoon, six days per week.
The airline stated GPS interference has considerably greater since 2022. Previous Finnair stated interference has been reported “particularly close to Kaliningrad, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Jap Mediterranean.” Estonian Overseas Minister Margus Tsahkna has stated that the jamming was once performed by means of Russia and may just in the end lead of a crash, including that “this will also be thought to be as a hybrid assault.”
Finnair stated its airplane programs come across GPS interference and its pilots are “smartly acutely aware of GPS interference and understand how to organize for it.”
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