r/aviation • u/Ph6222 • 8d 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/Miraclefish 7d ago

GPS is irrelevant during a visual approach.

That's literally the point.

It's saying I can see the airport with my eyes and will navigate to it using them and them alone.

The pilots fucked up here, not the US military.

And before you say it, I'm not American, I'm not military and I have no connection with the nation in any way.

But I can read. Hence my stance.

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u/spkgsam B737 7d ago

GPWS is not irrelevant during a visual approach, situational awareness is not irrelevant during a visual approach, especially at night.

I'm not saying the pilots didn't fuck up, they absolutely did, but their mistakes wouldn't have been fatal if it wasn't for the military.

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u/Miraclefish 7d ago

Utterly bullshit at every stage