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AMERICAN and British secret services spied on phone calls from passengers on several airlines, and especially Air France, and were able to intercept a range of data including secret codes.
The NSA and GCHQ intercepted phone signals from planes above 10,000ft as all calls and data passed via a ‘tappable’ satellite link, documents by whistleblower Edward Snowdon said.
Le Monde said the UK’s GCHQ was even able to block passengers’ phones so they had to restart them – and reveal the phone passcodes.
Aimed to prevent a repeat of the September 11 terror attacks in the US, the documents revealed the US CIA believed Air France and Aeromexico flights were favoured by terrorists.
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Air France denied the claims, saying calls were not possible.
