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Complaints regarding GPS spoofing or counterfeit outer signals experienced by craft were received from airports successful Kolkata, Amritsar, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai, the Centre informed Parliament connected Monday (December 1, 2025).
In effect to a question, Minister for Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu admitted that “some flights” encountered GPS spoofing successful the vicinity of Delhi airdrome arsenic reported by The Hindu connected November 7 astir specified events successful the archetypal week of the month.
The Minister said pursuing the events, “the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has requested Wireless Monitoring Organisation (WMO) to place the root of interference/ spoofing.” The WMO has besides been directed to mobilise much resources to hint the sources based connected approximate spoofing determination details shared by the DGCA and the AAI. Mr. Naidu was responding to a question from YSRCP MP S. Niranjan Reddy.
The Hindu had reported that for astir a week successful aboriginal November, craft wrong 60 nautical miles of Delhi airdrome experienced counterfeit GNSS signals indicating incorrect craft positions and misleading terrain warning.
Airline unit and aerial postulation controllers were taken aback arsenic determination was nary accusation astir specified enactment though these occurrences person go communal on Indian borders with Pakistan and Myanmar wherever GNSS spoofing is deployed to antagonistic drone activities.
Subsequently, Indian defence forces issued announcement to airmen alerting craft astir imaginable GNSS awesome disruption on aerial routes adjacent Mumbai and Kolkata due to the fact that of subject exercises successful those regions, starring galore to judge that the incidents successful Delhi were besides related to Indian subject tri-services exercises and IAF’s Exercise MahaGujRaj-25 that were underway astatine that clip successful the north-western parts of India, including Rajasthan and Gujarat.
