MBABANE: A Royal Air Force (RAF) jet with United Kingdom (UK) Defense Secretary on board had its signal jammed as it flew near the Russian border earlier this week, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported.
It has been reported that, John Healey was traveling back to the UK on Thursday after visiting British soldiers in Estonia when the incident happened.
Russia is believed to be behind the attack, which meant pilots had to use a different navigation system as the plane’s GPS was disabled during the three-hour flight.
“The incident took place a day after it emerged that two Russian warplanes had “repeatedly and dangerously” intercepted an RAF spy plane over the Black Sea last month. It is not known if Healey was purposely targeted, but the newspaper reported that the flight’s path was visible on aircraft tracking websites”, reads the BBC report in part.
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