A new unverified report claims the US Army mistakenly shot down a civilian medical aircraft over New Mexico in May during a test of GPS jamming technology, killing all four crew members. The report has not been independently confirmed.
A new report, currently unverified, claims that the US Army mistakenly shot down a civilian medical aircraft over New Mexico in May 2026, killing all four crew members. According to the report, the incident occurred during a test of new GPS jamming technology. The report has not been independently confirmed, and no official US military acknowledgment has been published. The incident adds to a pattern of reported US military targeting errors; in a separate case, Bloomberg reported in June that the US military mistakenly struck an elementary school in Iran in February due to an intelligence database error.
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