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India Orders 10-Minute Reporting as NSA Leads Probe Into Delhi Airport GPS Anomalies

Regulators seek real-time data to determine whether recent navigation disruptions were technical faults or deliberate interference.

Overview

  • DGCA directed pilots, air traffic controllers and technical units to file incident reports within 10 minutes of detecting GPS or GNSS irregularities in the Delhi airspace.
  • The circular specifies required details such as coordinates, type of interference, affected equipment and preservation of system logs and screenshots for evidence.
  • NSA Ajit Doval’s office, through the National Cybersecurity Coordinator, is coordinating a multi-agency investigation with CERT-In, MeitY, DGCA and AAI.
  • Pilots approaching the capital recently reported false position data and misleading terrain alerts within roughly 60 nautical miles of Delhi.
  • The Nov 7 disruption delayed more than 800 flights, led to diversions to Jaipur and Lucknow and forced reliance on manual and ground-based procedures, with agencies also tracking similar reports near Amritsar after hundreds of earlier cases in border regions.