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Who Attacked Flights Near the White House? | After a deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C., pilots started receiving alarms that they were next
After a deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C., pilots started receiving alarms that they were next.
The phenomenon started around Syria, where various forces used electronic warfare in the country’s civil war, causing nearby airliners to lose their GPS or find that their navigational systems reported them to be hundreds of miles from where they actually were. In August 2024, Giacomo Longo, an aviation-cybersecurity researcher at the University of Genova in Italy, explained at a cybersecurity conference in Philadelphia how he and his colleagues had built customized hardware that could generate spoof RAs from a distance of up to 2.6 miles away from the targeted aircraft, then operated it successfully against a mocked-up TCAS system. Those questions only became more acute in the wake of the April 28 failure of the air-traffic-control system at Newark, which left more than a dozen airliners invisible to controllers for over a minute and triggered a weeklong series of severe travel delays at the airport.
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