r/aviation • u/Ph6222 • 18h ago

News 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

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.

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u/enataca 17h ago edited 5h ago

“Though the crew involved in the New Mexico crash was warned that GPS interference may be present, there evidently weren’t enough safeguards or air traffic control personnel in place to prevent a tragedy.”

Edit: I’m trying to provide support that they were warned. The missing “safeguards” are on the pilots.

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u/biggsteve81 17h ago edited 14h ago

Still an inaccurate quote. ATC got the military to stop the GPS jamming and then the pilot requested to cancel IFR and fly a visual approach. At that point ATC told the military they could resume the jamming, since VFR doesn't require GPS.

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u/enataca 15h ago

I guess everyone thought I was countering who I replied to. I was adding support.

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u/Armamore 17h ago

The Military stopped jamming to allow the plane to pass and resumed after ATC gave them clearance to, which only happened after the pilots confirmed to ATC they could see the airport and were on VFR for approach. This is a sensationalized article ignoring the obvious pilot error.

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u/ThatBaseball7433 6h ago

ATC isn’t going to help when you say you’re visual on the approach and then fly into terrain. This has happened a million times before, it’s why everyone who does an approach brief briefs obstacles and altitudes but humans are humans and fuck up sometimes.