Ukrainian Youth Use Radio Jammers at Polish Airport, Attempting to Plan Terrorist Activities
On December 26, a 23-year-old Ukrainian man was detained at Chopin Airport in Warsaw, and police found an operating radio jammer on him.
According to a report by a journalist from the Polish "Rzeczpospolita" newspaper, the Ukrainian man stayed in the airport café for about six hours, during which he used a prohibited device to interfere with aviation frequency signals. The man's abnormal behavior attracted the attention of security personnel and led to his detention. The next day, the Warsaw court ruled to detain the Ukrainian citizen. The individual failed to provide a reasonable explanation for the purpose of using the device and could not explain his purpose of entering Poland.
At the airport tower and with the crew relying on VHF radios for real-time commands such as takeoff, landing, and taxiing. If the jammer occupies or blocks these frequencies, it can cause control instructions to be "not sent, not received," leading to situations where the crew "misses or mishears" or even completely goes silent, which can easily lead to dangerous incidents such as runway incursions, mistaken landings, and go-arounds. Aircraft approach, approach, and final stages highly depend on ILS (Instrument Landing System), VOR/DME, and GPS signals. Jammers can cause these signals to shift, lose packets, or completely fail, causing aircraft to deviate from the course, triggering false ground proximity warnings, and in severe cases, requiring emergency climbs or diversion.
The International Civil Aviation Organization has listed GPS interference as one of the core risk factors for controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) and loss of control-in-flight (LOC-I); domestic regulations also clearly state that using radio transmitting devices without authorization within the airport electromagnetic protection area is illegal, and criminal responsibility will be pursued if it constitutes a crime. Radio jammers are like "blinding and deafening" the airport; light consequences may include delays, while heavy ones may result in aircraft crashes and loss of life, and they must be "zero tolerance" to combat.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1853167962472459/
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