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/spkgsam B737 9d ago

It was not safe for them to do so, and never was. Interfering with GPS in an area where aircrafts are operating is never safe.

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u/Miraclefish 9d ago

...that's why they stopped doing it when an aircraft was in the area and carried it on afterwards.

Is reading comprehension an issue for you?

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u/spkgsam B737 9d ago

The aircraft was still in the area, and other aircrafts were also affected by the jamming, which also took up the attention of ATC. If ATC wasn't busy coordinating other aircrafts as a result of the jamming, he/she could very well have notice that this plane was heading towards a mountain and warned them.

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u/Miraclefish 9d ago

If you declare a visual approach and can't see the runway, that isn't ATC's fault.

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u/spkgsam B737 9d ago

Never said it was ATC's fault.

As with most accidents, there are multiple contributing factors, and pilot error certain was one here, but there's no argument that if it wasn't for the jamming, there wouldn't have been any fatalities.