To: Evil Slayer
According to an NBC News investigation the outage was caused by the flyover of a U-2 spy plane. Apparently the 1950′s class spy plane entered LAX airspace at about 60,000 feet and its jamming systems crashed not only the primary air traffic control systems used to monitor...
Nonsense. Ask any commercial pilot flying in SoCal approach (Southern California) on that day and they will tell you that their GPS all shut down. Hundreds of commercial airliners lost their GPS - most likely due to some sort of jamming. I can say that in at least one case, the GPS jamming did damage as well. 2 out of 3 GPS receivers never came back online in a 4 hour flight (we also have laser inertial gyros, GPS only updates them).
9 posted on
05/08/2014 6:56:51 AM PDT by
Tzfat
To: Tzfat
"Nonsense....GPS jamming...."
Whoa there....where are you getting this information?
I frequent the foremost aviation forums, and have seen virtually NO mention of such a thing.
Links or sources please.
To: Tzfat; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
16 posted on
05/08/2014 8:18:34 AM PDT by
null and void
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To: Tzfat
Do you know if personal devices such phone, handheld, and vehicle GPS devices also failed?
19 posted on
05/08/2014 8:45:18 AM PDT by
CodeToad
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