Would you agree that "jamming" the secondary radar (ADS-B) signal leading to the disappearing of aircrafts from the screen of an ATC would make it also disappear from flightradar24 ?
FR24 uses amateur receivers, which are surely less sophisticated than those used by European air traffic controls.
And I would assume that those amateur receivers would also be unable to pick up or process a jammed signal properly.
Could therefore be interesting to check whether on 5 June and June 10 suddenly disappearing planes could be found on flightradar24.
The affected control areas lie hundreds of miles apart though. And I wonder, how some single local jamming could cause ADS-B signals disappear from Slovak, Austrian, Czech and German (Karlsruhe) area control.
Austro Control is not willing to disclose "flight numbers or airlines" affected by this breakdown and neither the number of "13 incidents" as quoted by Austrian daily "Kurier" has been officially confirmed. So could also have affected more flights.
Alledgedly (also with no official confirmation) the second incident affected "only planes cruising at high altitudes".
If some dumb moron is jamming service frequencies just for his private "amusement" you could call it "inexcusable" and he would surely be treated on criminal charges if caught.
If it would prove that NATO in the course of an exercise on "electronic war(!)fare" would deliberately include civil aircrafts in their "games", well aware to jeopardize the safety of innumerable lives and risking a catastrophe, how should we call that ?
Any further infos on that ?
Anyone, who checked if and which planes also disappeared on fr24 ?
Any pilots reading here and have been involved in these incidents ?
Last edited by phonix_at; 14th Jun 2014 at 07:40.