Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico
Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico Ellsworth Toohey 9:30 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 GPS jamming — Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) A medevac flight that should have taken half an hour ended on the side of a mountain in New Mexico, killing all four aboard. Jeff Wise reports for Wired that a military GPS jamming exercise 100 miles away is part of the reason. The Beechcraft King Air had left Roswell just before midnight on May 13 to pick up a patient in Ruidoso.
- ▪Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico Ellsworth Toohey 9:30 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 GPS jamming — Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) A medevac flight that should have taken half an hour ended on the s
- ▪Jeff Wise reports for Wired that a military GPS jamming exercise 100 miles away is part of the reason.
- ▪The Beechcraft King Air had left Roswell just before midnight on May 13 to pick up a patient in Ruidoso.
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Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico Ellsworth Toohey 9:30 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 GPS jamming — Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) A medevac flight that should have taken half an hour ended on the side of a mountain in New Mexico, killing all four aboard. Jeff Wise reports for Wired that a military GPS jamming exercise 100 miles away is part of the reason. The Beechcraft King Air had left Roswell just before midnight on May 13 to pick up a patient in Ruidoso. The Air Force's 746th Test Squadron was running its annual NAVFEST at the White Sands Missile Range that night, two weeks of exercises in disrupting GPS. The FAA had warned operators that GPS could be affected up to 400 miles away between May 12 and May 18.
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