A medevac crash in New Mexico that killed four is raising questions about the risks of military GPS jamming. MS NOW senior transportation reporter has more.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fatal plane crash that occurred during a U.S. military GPS jamming exercise in New Mexico.
A U.S. Air Force electronic warfare test knocked out GPS navigation across hundreds of miles of New Mexico airspace on the night a medevac plane flew straight into a 10,000-foot mountain, killing all four people aboard. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air left Roswell just before midnight on May 13, carrying two pilots and two nurses […] The post Military GPS-jamming exercise linked to medevac crash that killed four in New Mexico appeared first on American Almanac .
A U.S. Air Force electronic warfare test knocked out GPS navigation across hundreds of miles of New Mexico airspace on the night a medevac plane flew straight into a 10,000-foot mountain, killing all four people aboard. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air left Roswell just before midnight on May 13, carrying two pilots and two nurses on a mission to pick up a patient in Ruidoso and fly them to Albuquerque. Eight minutes after takeoff, the crew reported losing GPS and asked air traffic control for help. By 12:08 a.m. on May 14, the aircraft had overshot the landing pattern by roughly 10 miles. The pilots never made it to the airport. The plane struck the Capitan Mountains at full speed, and nobody survived. The crash has been linked to a…Open
During the flight, the air traffic controller requested the military stop jamming the GPS, according to the NTSB report.