A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Militarys Tech to Blame?

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  • Two pilots and two nurses aboard a medevac plane crashed in New Mexico last May.
  • It was the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the u.s. In the past year, the US military appeared to have sent out notices for at least 10 such exercises.
  • "As drone warfare and electronic warfare expand, airlines are increasingly encountering navigation disruptions hundreds of miles beyond the actual conflict zone," says Eliran Almog, CEO of the cybersecurity firm Cyviation.
At midnight on May 14, eight minutes after Clark and Kawsara took off from Roswell, they told Albuquerque Center that theyd lost their GPS.

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