Spanish Defense Minister’s Plane Hit by GPS Interference
Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles
Photographer: Omar Havana/Getty ImagesA military airplane transporting Spanish defense Minister Margarita Robles suffered a GPS attack when it was traveling to Lithuania.
The GPS interference was blocked by the plane’s electronic defense system, according to a news report by Spanish news agency Europa Press and confirmed by a spokesperson for the ministry Wednesday. The plane was flying over the Baltic Sea, near Russia’s Kaliningrad.