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.