An unknown person broke through the air on the frequency of the US civil aviation and threatened to arrange a terrorist attack. This was reported by CBS News.
Air traffic controllers heard the voice of a man who threatened to fly an airplane into the building on January 6 US Congress a>. Thus, the attacker argued, he would avenge the killed Iranian general Qasem Suleimani. The sender of this message has not yet been identified.
It is alleged that law enforcement consider this threat to be impossible. However, such an appearance on the air could be potentially dangerous, as a criminal disguised as a controller could transmit incorrect flight commands to pilots.
On January 6, members of Congress must approve the victory of Joe Biden in the US presidential election .
Suleimani died in Iraqi Baghdad on January 3, 2020, in a missile attack from the United States. Together with the general, several officers accompanying him and the deputy commander of the Iraqi Shiite militia, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, were killed. In response, Tehran fired dozens of missiles at American targets in Iraq on the night of January 8. The operation that took place was named “Martyr of Suleimani”.