00:00flights at delhi's indira gandhi international airport one of asia's busiest have faced massive
00:17disruption since thursday evening what began as a technical slowdown in air traffic control
00:22systems has now triggered wider concern across india's aviation circles not just over delays
00:29but over what might be behind them since 5 am friday over 60 flights have been delayed at the
00:37delhi airport as of now the latest reports say more than 300 flights have been delayed so far
00:43the air traffic control system reportedly went sluggish late thursday affecting flight scheduling
00:49and communication while incoming flights are still being managed outgoing departures have been
00:55severely hit airport sources say controllers are having to manually guide pilots because of
01:01something far more worrying than a software glitch persistent gps spoofing over the delhi airspace
01:10now what does that mean gps spoofing is a form of cyber interference where false navigation
01:16signals are transmitted to mislead an aircraft's onboard systems showing wrong coordinates or
01:23even fake terrain warnings pilots flying into delhi over the past week have reported exactly that
01:29false navigation cues and incorrect terrain alerts in simple terms the aircraft's computer systems were
01:36briefly seeing obstacles that did not exist these weren't isolated instances it has been reported
01:45that spoofing has been reported for nearly a week now within a 60 nautical mile radius of delhi forcing the
01:54atc officials to intervene manually ensuring aircraft don't go off course so how serious is this officials at
02:03the directorate general of civil aviation also known as dgca and the civil aviation ministry have confirmed to
02:09the media that they are aware of the matter a high-level meeting was held thursday night to assess whether this
02:15was just a technical issue or something more coordinated globally gps interference and spoofing have
02:22become a major aviation concern in europe several airports in germany poland and baltic region reported
02:29similar disruptions suspected to be fallout from the russia ukraine war with signals traced to areas of
02:36international warfare air navigation bodies like iata and icao have warned that such cyber disruptions are
02:44rising up more than 220 percent between 2021 and 2024 india too has seen frequent interferences especially
02:54near amritsar and jammu close to the pakistan border but delhi's case is unprecedented because the
03:01national capital's airspace is considered one of the most secure and heavily monitored zones in asia so
03:08could this be a cyber sabotage officials aren't confirming that yet but experts say the pattern
03:14demands scrutiny no military exercises were announced near delhi no notams were issued and yet multiple
03:22airlines have lodged identical experiences if not an external interference could this be an internal
03:29system breach or a software compromise in india's adc network those questions are now front and center
03:37of aviation security discussions the dgca has already warned airlines to submit bi-monthly reports on gps
03:44spoofing and signal interference and while the redundancies in modern aircraft such as the inertial
03:51reference system also known as irs prevent immediate safety risks experts warn that the reliability of
03:59the airspace itself is now under question for now authorities are calling it a technical snag but the
04:06scope duration and location of these disruptions make it much more than a routine glitch whether this
04:13is a coordinated cyber event or an operational systems failure delhi's skies have sent a warning in an
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