27.01.10
Radio hoaxers are risking lives by posing as flight crew and sending bogus messages to air traffic controllers at Leeds Bradford Airport. A police investigation has been launched to catch the broadcasters, who have been using specialist equipment – and specific airline call signs – to disrupt the work of controllers who manage the planes landing or taking off from the airport.
There have been two incidents since Christmas, both raising safety concerns. A spokesman for the airport said: ‘These people must think they are having a laugh but it is a very juvenile and immature act, the consequences of which could be devastating.'
The spokesman said that, although air traffic controllers were aware of all of the planes’ flight paths, the hoax broadcasts cause danger by distracting the controllers and, if they were to take the calls seriously, cause them to move other planes, increasing the possibility of aircraft colliding.
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