Electronic GPS ‘spoofing’ behind civilian jet navigation failures over Iraq

The Washington Times ^ | Updated: 4:12 p.m. on Thursday, September 28, 2023 | Bill Gertz

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"My uncle Ned was a navigator on B29s in WWII doing bombing raids on Japan. He was the most important man on the aircraft.

I've always felt badly for the crew -particularly the navigator - on the Lady Be Good. They were returning from their very first mission and the circumstances had worked out that they were alone, after night had fallen. They overshot their base in Libya and ended up flying into the Sahara desert. Though they had parachuted from the aircraft, none of the nine crew members managed to hike out of the desert. The wreckage of the aircraft was discovered in 1958, and eventually, 8 of the 9 crew members' remains were found.

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Gosh! How on earth were my wife and I able to navigate from interior Alaska to central Florida, up to New England and back home across subarctic Canada without a GPS back in 1985?