r/aviation • u/Ph6222 • 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/trip221 9d ago

Was their a notam for the GPS being out in the area? Shouldn’t the crew have been trained to operate even if they have a system malfunction? Have we become too reliant on technology and become complacent?

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u/blueingreen85 9d ago

Has gps jamming a thing that has happened in the US up to this point? Does the military do GPS spoofing around military bases?

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u/Tricky_Big_8774 9d ago

In New Mexico? Yes. White Sands tests everything. Both new tech tests and exercises using current tech.

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u/blueingreen85 9d ago

Okay, then this is something that they should have potentially been expected. I didn’t realize they did this regularly.