Two passenger jets forced to turn around due to Russian jamming amid warning Putin could cause catastrophic air disaster

TWO passengers jets have been forced to turn around due to suspected Russian GPS jamming.

Baltic ministers have warned that Russia is posing a threat of an air disaster if it continues to attack passenger planes with the “extremely dangerous” signal disruptions.

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The pair of Finnair flights from Helsinki to Tartu in Estonia had to be swiftly returned to Finland after reportedly failing to navigate safely during the first part of its journey.

The airplanes are believed to have been the latest victims of Putin’s aerial attacks that have already affected tens of thousands commercial flights.

The Sun reported last Sunday that almost 4,000 flights have been hit by bizarre jamming in recent months with many now saying the Kremlin could be behind the disruption.

Bogus data forced commercial planes to swerve and dive to avoid phantom obstacles that were not really there.

Aviation sources have branded the tactic “extremely dangerous” and a major threat to air safety.

Estonia’s foreign minister Margus Tsahkna called the latest sky chaos “part of Russia’s hostile activities”.

He added: “Ssuch actions are a hybrid attack and are a threat to our people and security, and we will not tolerate them.”

The suspected source of the plane jammer is Putin’s top secret war weapon known as a Tobol.

The Russian technology has been commonly used to interfere with the GPS guidance of airliners and ships on Nato’s eastern flank, according to military experts.