Media Outlets Maliciously Fabricate Blame in New Mexico Plane Crash
By Easton Martin | August 5, 2026
Liberal media outlets are engaging in reckless partisan propaganda by directly blaming the U.S. military and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for a fatal medical evacuation plane crash in New Mexico.
Rather than adhering to basic standards of journalistic accuracy or waiting for official investigative conclusions, publications such as Futurism have manufactured claims that military testing killed everyone on board. It is obvious that the mainstream media at large does not like Hegseth, nor anyone in the Trump administration, but this kind of reporting is slanderous and low-IQ.
The sensationalized reporting presents a gross distortion of the facts documented in official safety records. Preliminary findings from the National Transportation Safety Board regarding the May crash of a Trans Aero MedEvac Beechcraft King Air near Ruidoso, New Mexico, demonstrate a complex sequence of unfortunate events.
Although scheduled GPS jamming occurred at the nearby White Sands Missile Range, the Federal Aviation Administration issued explicit advance notices to airmen across the region. NTSB documents show that air traffic controllers provided the flight crew with radar headings and requested a pause in military testing, which successfully restored satellite navigation capabilities. The crew subsequently elected to transition from instrument flight rules to visual flight rules in total darkness over mountainous terrain prior to colliding with a ridge.
Aviation safety protocols demonstrate that temporary GPS disruption does not cause an aircraft to crash, as pilots are trained to utilize ground-based navigational equipment and onboard instruments. Declaring that the military accidentally killed everyone on board is just false. These partisan writers are actively misleading the public to advance a political narrative against Defense Department leadership. Weaponizing a tragic aviation accident to score political points is just further evidence of a profound collapse of media ethics.
