Russian GPS interference prevented Finnair’s airplane from landing in Joensuu Airport

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1. >On Tuesday morning, a Finnair aircraft traveling from Helsinki to Joensuu at 6.35 was unable to land due to GPS interference. After some time, the captain decided to return to Helsinki, resulting in the cancellation of the return flight from Joensuu to Helsinki.

   >Joensuu is the regional capital of North Karelia, and the city’s eastern region borders to Russia.

   >The flight time between Helsinki and Joensuu is approximately one hour and five minutes.

   >Kajsa Tikkanen, Finnair’s chief of communications, explained that Joensuu airport is one of few airports in Finland that only uses satellite based GPS navigation in guiding aircraft during the approach. Hence, if GPS interference appears the aircraft is not allowed to initiate or continue the approach.

   >While the GPS signal is essential for a plane’s approach prior to landing, it does not usually affect navigation during the flight.

   >Most airports also use ground based landing systems in assisting airplane approaches. They are not as sensitive to interference.

   >Tikkanen noted that GPS interference usually lasts only a few minutes, but this time it persisted, resulting in the captain’s decision to return to Helsinki.

   >Recently, GPS interference has occurred, impacting flight traffic. Tikkanen added that pilots are aware of this issue and know how to respond in such situations.

2. send a couple of Ukrainian drones. say Ukraine did it.

   the job is done

3. State sponsored terrorism. Fucking cowards are too scared to declare war officially

4. They are definitely not preparing to jam NATO communication in case of the future war

5. So is this now a security relevant incident that could trigger Article 5 mutual defense or just Article 4 an urgent meeting with NATO?

   Russia does salami tactics, just a little bit here and a little bit there. If we continue to ignore or submit to the threats and fuckery by Russia they just escalate even more every day more.

6. That’s what happens when Europe has no ball to retaliate on everything that Russia does!

   These kind of shit will continue.

7. Joins a hostile military alliance and is surprised they are being treated like hostiles, when they previously weren’t.

   What next, complaining about increased troop and military hardware concentrations near the border?

8. WE ARE AT WAR WITH RUSSIA!

   Putin has stated multiple times the West is his enemy, he wants to destroy us.

   MH17, Brexit, election interference, Ukraine, right and left wing political connections, botfarms to get the West more divided,…

   How is it, that we are not responding accordingly?
   Not even helping Ukraine enough to win.

9. Isn’t it time to start jamming their systems also? Wonder how they like that…

10. Russia is the methead that is our neighbor.