On Jun 4, 6:56*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
If the military itself can screw up enough to do this without even trying, you
can imagine what a determined adversary could do to civil aviation
deliberately:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6537473.shtml

Just another reason to keep VORs and other navigation methods as back-ups, or
risk the consequences.

It would be useful to look at the entire event, underlying causes, and
program developments before making these judgments. You may not know
there are two distinct, and soon to be three distinct, positioning
systems in place.