One of the more interesting facets of GPS is that, at least from the receiver’s point-of-view, it’s a fairly passive system. All of the information beamed down from the satellites is out in ...

A passenger plane that crashed in a fireball leaving human remains strewn across a Kazakhstani runway could have been hit by GPS jamming ... before impacting the ground. Human remains left ...

The Ground Proximity Warning System, which relies on GPS-enabled terrain data ... pilot to perform an emergency maneuver by pulling up the joystick to level off the plane, narrowly avoiding collision ...

This data is picked up by ground stations and eventually displayed ... However, it is degraded. How a plane’s GPS system reacts to that depends on the software built into the GPS receiver.