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Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico

A GPS jamming exercise 100 miles away preceded a New Mexico medevac crash that killed 4 people.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 08, 2026
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GPS jamming — Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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 …

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