Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal on an aircraft used by Defense Minister Grant Shapps to travel from Poland back to Britain, a government source and journalists traveling with him said on March 14. According to the source and the journalists, the GPS signal was interfered with for about 30 minutes while the plane flew close to Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. Mobile phones could no longer connect to the Internet and the aircraft was forced to use alternative methods to determine its location, they said.
Russia Believed To Have Jammed Signal On U.K. Minister's Plane
U.K. Defense Minister Grant Shapps (file photo)