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A Beech King Air crew flying a medical transport out of Roswell, New Mexico, reported losing GPS capability minutes after departure on May 14 while the U.S. military conducted a planned satellite-denial exercise nearby.
The aircraft later struck the Capitan Mountains on approach to its destination, killing both pilots and two flight nurses.
The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report has not determined whether the GPS interference caused the crash, but the sequence has drawn new scrutiny to a question regulators have handled so far with guidance documents rather than hardware mandates.
What the NTSB found The crew departed Roswell shortly before midnight, bound for Ruidoso.
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