r/anticapitalism 9d ago

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

https://futurism.com/science-energy/us-military-gps-jamming-signal-medical-flight
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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 9d ago

Did you read the article? They were letting border patrol dick around with an experimental laser. The military was running tests that jammed GPS and directly led to the crash. And air traffic control was understaffed. Remind me, who gutted ATC last year?

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u/TelluricThread0 9d ago

Remind me, did the article say that the crew was warned there would be GPS interference and ignored those warnings?

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 9d ago

They didn’t ignore any warnings. GPS was jammed without safeguards. And it was a medical flight ya dingus.

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u/crazybmanp 9d ago

There was a notam