Lawmakers ask questions of Pentagon after medevac plane crash near New Mexico missile range

New Mexico lawmakers are demanding answers from the Pentagon about a civilian medevac plane that crashed near a military base earlier this year while base personnel were allegedly testing GPS jamming technology. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, along with U.S. Teresa Leger Fernández, Melanie Stansbury and Gabe Vasquez issued a joint statement on Thursday, urging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense to cooperate with investigations and develop systems to prevent it from happening again. “By any account, this crash was tragic,” the delegation, all Democrats, wrote. “While this is reportedly the first time GPS jamming activities by the U.S. military have caused or contributed to the crash of a civilian plane, that does little to comfort the families of those lost in that crash or impacted by the wildfire it triggered.” On May 14, a Beech C9 twin-engine plane left Roswell Air Center. The medevac plane, carrying two pilots and two flight nurses, was traveling west to Ruidoso, 75 miles away, to pick up a patient.

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