GPS dis­rup­tions af­fect­ing air­craft op­er­at­ing in and around Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port have been linked to es­ca­lat­ing mil­i­tary ten­sions in the south­ern Caribbean, ac­cord­ing to a re­port pub­lished by The New York Times over the week­end.

The re­port stat­ed that pi­lots from Caribbean Air­lines and Co­pa Air­lines alert­ed air traf­fic con­trollers that their nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems were be­ing jammed, forc­ing con­trollers to guide air­craft by radar to en­sure safe land­ings.

“A pi­lot of a dif­fer­ent com­mer­cial flight that day, op­er­at­ed by Caribbean Air­lines, blunt­ly told an air traf­fic con­troller that his nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems were be­ing jammed be­fore ask­ing to be guid­ed in­to Trinidad,” the re­port stat­ed.