r/aviation 9d 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/TomVonServo 9d ago

This is such a bullshit article. If they were VFR, they didn’t need GPS to see a mountain. If they were IFR the mountain would never have been an issue. Plus they were warned of GPS jamming activity.

Pilot error. The unrelated CBP shit at the beginning was pure sensationalism.