A medevac aircraft crashed into a mountain near Ruidoso, New Mexico, after a US military GPS-jamming exercise reportedly disabled modern navigation systems across a wide area. All four people aboard died, and the incident is described as the first known US civilian fatal crash in which electronic warfare contributed, raising concerns about the safety implications of increasingly frequent GPS disruption.

The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air left Roswell on 13 May for a normally short, clear-weather flight, carrying two pilots and two nurses to collect a patient. The relatively inexperienced crew had to fall back on older radio-based navigation methods when GPS became unavailable, while the military had issued notices for at least 10 jamming exercises in the previous year. Medevac flying already carries elevated risks because crews often operate at short notice and use unfamiliar airstrips, making loss of navigation aids particularly consequential.