KARACHI: Both the arrival and return flights of US Vice President J D Vance to Islamabad experienced GPS signal drops at the same location over the Caspian Sea near Baku, resulting in glitches in the track line.
According to flight radar data, glitches were reported at the exact same point for both flights. When the aircraft was travelling from Paris to Islamabad, as soon as it reached Caspian Sea near Baku, the C-32A aircraft encountered a GPS signal drop at an altitude of 33,025 feet and a speed of 850 km/h at 02:42 UTC.
The flight was also reported as unstable on radar, and its speed temporarily dropped to around 370 km/h.
Similarly, on return route from Islamabad to Germany, while travelling from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan over Caspian Sea, the aircraft experienced an identical GPS signal issue at the same location, this time at an altitude of 34,650 feet and a speed of 800 km/h.
During this incident, the aircraft’s speed suddenly dropped to 204 km/h on
flight radar. However, both flights remained normal overall. According to aviation sources, such incidents have become common due to cyber interference amid ongoing Middle East conflict, and passengers on board typically do not notice anything unusual.
