Successful meaconing can cause aircraft to be lured into "hot" (ambush-ready) landing zones or enemy airspace, ships to be diverted from their intended routes, bombers to expend ordnance on false targets, or ground stations to receive inaccurate bearings or position locations.
Iran says it used this technique (among others) to capture a USAF RQ-170 Sentinel drone, causing it to crash land.
Meaconing in this case could provide a drone with false altitude measurements, causing a crash landing.
[citation needed] In the film Tomorrow Never Dies, a military GPS signal is meaconed to send a Royal Navy frigate off course.
The villain of Die Hard 2 changes the Dulles Airport's ATC beacon altitude to below ground level, causing planes' altimeters to provide false readings, thus causing landing planes to crash.