European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen’s personal plane was hit by suspected Russian jamming in a horror incident that saw pilots forced to land the plane using paper maps.
A jet carrying von der Leyen to Plovdiv on Sunday afternoon reportedly lost all electronic navigational aids while on approach to the city’s airport and, according to sources, the incident is now being treated as a Russian interference operation.
“The whole airport area GPS went dark,” one of the officials told the Financial Times. “It was undeniable interference,” said the source, who claimed pilots then circled the airport for an hour before making the decision to land using paper charts.
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