Karabakh separatists create threats to civil aviation flights - Azerbaijani Defence Ministry

Baku/15.07.23/Turan: Armenian armed formations in Karabakh create radio jamming against satellite navigation systems of passenger aircrafts of Azerbaijani and foreign companies, which creates a threat to the safety of civil aviation flights, the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry said on Saturday.

"In particular, as a result of the use of radio interference on 13 July from 11:54 to 12:07 and from 13:02 to 13:17 against the passenger aircraft Gulfstream G280 of "Azerbaijan Airlines", which was flying on the routes Zangilan-Fizuli and Fizuli-Baku, there was a failure in its GPS satellite navigation system." "The fact of illegal Armenian armed formations using radio interference against the GPS satellite navigation systems of passenger aircraft has been recorded before. Despite repeated appeals to the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent that such cases pose a serious threat to the safety of air transportations, no measures were taken," the report of the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry concludes.-06B-