Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On May 14th, 2026, a Beech King Air C90 operated by Generation Jets crashed into the Capitan Mountains near Ruidoso, New Mexico, killing all four on board — two pilots and two flight nurses on a Part 135 air ambulance mission. The NTSB has released its preliminary report on accident WPR26FA186, and it confirms that U.S. military GPS jamming was active in the area at the time of the flight — and was documented in the crew's preflight briefing.
The preliminary report lays out a set of compounding factors: GPS loss six minutes into the flight, an out-of-service weather station at the destination airport, instrument approaches that required equipment and data the crew no longer had, and GPS jamming that resumed while the aircraft was on a visual approach toward mountainous terrain.
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On May 14th, 2026, a Beech King Air C90 operated by Generation Jets crashed into the Capitan Mountains near Ruidoso, New Mexico, killing all four on board — two pilots and two flight nurses on a Part 135 air ambulance mission. The NTSB has released its preliminary report on accident WPR26FA186, and it confirms that U.S. military GPS jamming was active in the area at the time of the flight — and was documented in the crew's preflight briefing.
The preliminary report lays out a set of compounding factors: GPS loss six minutes into the flight, an out-of-service weather station at the destination airport, instrument approaches that required equipment and data the crew no longer had, and GPS jamming that resumed while the aircraft was on a visual approach toward mountainous terrain.
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