>>1634416Nothing new here. ILS is a very simple system and is, on it's own, therefore highly susceptible to a hypothetical attack. But hypothetical is the key word here. Such an attack probably wouldn't achieve much, especially in this day and age. Airliners have multiple redundant navigation systems, including inertial navigation (which can drift over time but is entirely invulnerable to jamming) and GPS, so an errant ILS signal would be quickly recognized. Small airplanes may be more vulnerable, but even they often have GPS nowadays and they have higher approach minimums at which they are required to transition from instrument to visual reference for landing. Furthermore, aircraft on instrument approaches are nearly always under radar surveillance by ATC, at least for the initial phases of the approach. So even if the pilot of a small airplane was blindly following an errant localizer towards the mountains instead of an airport, its likely ATC would take notice and correct the pilot over the radio.
>That's how they killed kobe and jfk jr..Both of these flights were legally VFR - required to fly primarily by visual reference. So neither one was likely tuned into an ILS at all. And both seem to be textbook cases of spatial disorientation, which could have been prevented had the pilots referenced their instruments.
