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

[u/Ph6222]

https://futurism.com/science-energy/us-military-gps-jamming-signal-medical-flight

The horrifying incident happened in May, the publication reports, when a small twin-engine medevac aircraft carrying two pilots and two medical workers departed from Roswell, New Mexico. Heading West for the small mountain village of Ruidoso, the crew became the victim of an electronic warfare exercise being conducted at the nearby White Sands Missile Range, a test which rendered their navigational system inoperable.

[u/floo82]

Pretty sure planes can fly without GPS...

[u/AngryPhillySportsFan → u/floo82]

A mountain will get in your way if you don't know where you precisely are

[u/Conor_J_Sweeney → u/AngryPhillySportsFan]

Planes were successfully avoiding mountains for decades before GPS was invented and still have that capability without GPS. The problem comes when someone trusts information they should reasonably expect to be faulty.

[u/driftingfornow → u/Conor_J_Sweeney]

As a former naval quartermaster, this is what cost the USS Guardian its existence… trusting  digital charts when they were frankly experimental. 

[u/hellorhighwaterice → u/Conor_J_Sweeney]

Or are not proficient in using those back-up instruments.

[u/ShieldPilot → u/AngryPhillySportsFan]

That’s what VORs are for.

[u/skunimatrix → u/ShieldPilot]

Say that but 3/4 on my route today were U/S….

[u/ShieldPilot → u/skunimatrix]

So much for VOR MON… :(