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Increasing Fake GPS Signals Near Iran Prompt FAA Alert
Ops Group has tracked at least 20 such spoofing incidents
Ops Group depiction of Embraer Legacy 650 off course after GPS spoofing (Image: Ops Group)
Ops Group depicts how close an Embraer Legacy 650 drifted off course and near the border of Iran—and a key missile base—after a GPS spoofing incident. (Image: Ops Group)

The FAA last night issued a warning to operators of “safety of flight risk to civil aviation operations” in light of the growing number of GPS spoofing incidences along a flight path through Iraq alongside the Iranian border, according to the Ops Group.

Earlier this week, the Ops Group alerted that it had tracked incidents where fake GPS signals were transmitted to about a dozen business jets and airliners traveling along airway UM688, and many of them lost navigation capability.

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