Authorities in Guangzhou were investigating false radio signals that instructed airliners to change codes or alter course.
Crew members of several flights have reported receiving false instructions when flying over Guangzhou. The civil aviation authority has confirmed these radio signals were illegal and warned those transmitting the signals not to jeopardize civilian flights.
At 10 a.m., Friday, an Air China aircraft received 'instructions' directing the crew to change answering codes when it was passing over Guangzhou. When the pilot of the Hangzhou-Shenzhen flight asked for the code number to be repeated, there was no reply.
Later contact with air traffic control proved it to be false.
At 10:20 a.m. the same day, a China Eastern Airlines flight was instructed to divert to another destination when it was over Guangzhou, en route from Shanghai to Singapore. The signal was also later proved to be false.
Experts suspect the 'instructions' were sent by radio hams who might just want to have fun. The civil aviation authority has asked all flights passing over Guangzhou to double check incoming signals.
Experts say false signals could cause an air disaster.
Air traffic control errors have led to air crashes in the past. In 1996, the crew of an airliner above New Delhi airport did not correctly follow air traffic control instructions, causing a midair collision killing 349 people.
Alarm over false air traffic instructions
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Re: Alarm over false air traffic instructions
You really have to be an expert to know such things...SN30952 wrote: Experts say false signals could cause an air disaster.
Re: Alarm over false air traffic instructions
pls clfy!Mudvayne wrote:You really have to be an expert to know such things...SN30952 wrote: Experts say false signals could cause an air disaster.
Please clarify...
wasnt it a 14y old kid at a boarding school having some 'fun' from his room?Stoney wrote:didn't we have the same in Belgium a while ago?
If I'm not mistaking there was this kid that got a radio from his father for his birthday messing up the air traffic control... Apparently he was pretty good at it cause the pilots really thaught it was genuine atc...