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Military Interference: the Connected Car that Thought It Was an Airbus at Gibraltar Airport

Summary by Air Journal
A rather confusing scene occurred yesterday in Gibraltar: several witnesses claim that a connected car replicated, in real time, the trajectory of an easyJet flight to the outskirts of the local airport runway. The episode, widely relayed on social networks, reveals the fragility of the GPS systems on board at the passage of military aircraft equipped with strategic scramblers on their side. According to these testimonies, a state-of-the-art ele…
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A rather confusing scene occurred yesterday in Gibraltar: several witnesses claim that a connected car replicated, in real time, the trajectory of an easyJet flight to the outskirts of the local airport runway. The episode, widely relayed on social networks, reveals the fragility of the GPS systems on board at the passage of military aircraft equipped with strategic scramblers on their side. According to these testimonies, a state-of-the-art ele…

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Air Journal broke the news in on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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