A civilian medivac flight out of Roswell, New Mexico reportedly crashed into a mountain during a military GPS jamming exercise, killing all four people on board, and almost nobody is talking about it.
0:00 A medical flight crashed and nobody's talking about it
0:35 The El Paso airport shutdown explained
1:10 What Wired's bombshell report found
1:50 How the GPS jammer caused the crash
2:30 Everyone on board
3:05 Two and a half more years of this
New reporting from Wired connects the earlier FAA shutdown of El Paso air traffic to an experimental military GPS jammer being tested nearby. The report says the jamming, combined with low visibility and an overloaded air traffic control system, kept a twin-engine medical jet's pilots from spotting a mountain in their path. This breakdown walks through what happened, who was on board, and why this story deserves way more attention than it's getting.
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