A former US Army officer, Lt Col Daniel Davis, has alleged that a fatal civilian plane crash in New Mexico last May, in which four people died, was linked to GPS jamming from a nearby military exercise, and argues the incident reflects a wider, longstanding pattern of risky secretive weapons testing by the US military rather than an isolated failure. A National Transportation Safety Board report published last week found that a nearby military exercise had intermittently disrupted the GPS signals the aircraft relied on for navigation, though investigators stopped short of confirming the testing directly caused the crash.

Davis points to further incidents, including one last February that received little prior public notice, to argue that such episodes form part of a recurring problem within the Pentagon's testing culture rather than a one-off anomaly. The article frames the New Mexico crash as evidence of insufficient oversight and transparency around experimental military exercises that can pose risks to civilian aircraft and the public.