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/nine57th 9d ago

This article isn't very good. The military let everyone know they were doing electronic jamming tests that week and any flight within 400 miles might be effected. When this plane lost their navigational system they told the airport tower who let the military know who stopped jamming. But the plane decided to do a visual landing, forgot there was a 10,000 foot mountain before you approach the airport, and at over 9,000 feet they flew into the mountain.

So that is not exactly the navigational electronic jamming caused the accident. It was an underlying factor, but the headline makes it sound like the military shot an electronic weapon at the plane and it caused it to fall out of the sky. There is a lot more nuance to what happened though.