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After the GPS Warnings

Planes have broken off approaches in northern Norway. Calls have dropped near Finland’s eastern border. Both countries are taking the problem to Doha.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 14

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By the end of October, pilots in Eastern Finnmark had broken off three approaches and changed course or turned back five times in cases involving satellite navigation interference. Kamzy Gunaratnam, Norway’s transport minister, gave those figures in a reply to parliament published on November 3. The records combine cases where …

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