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Arlington, Farmington
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Former newspaper reporter, currently an aviation writer for AOPA and certificated pilot.
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GPS jamming active when King Air struck mountain

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By Jim Moore Verified
| rntfnd.org
A Beechcraft King Air collided with a New Mexico mountain ridge while attempting an instrument approach shortly after midnight on a moonless May 14, killing four people and igniting a wildfire that took nearly a month to extinguish. GPS interference—an increasingly common event in recent years—figures prominently in the preliminary report released by the NTSB.
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GPS jamming active when King Air struck mountain

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By Jim Moore Verified
| Aopa Pilot Verified
Investigators plotted GPS data of the fatal air ambulance flight from two sources: recorded ADS-B data, and a Spidertracks device onboard the aircraft. Two flight nurses and two pilots planned a short flight from their home base in Roswell Air Center Airport to Sierra Blanca Regional Airport in Ruidoso. Visibility was 10 miles with clear skies when the flight departed Roswell to pick up a patient for transport to Albuquerque.
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Building support for Vermont aviation

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By Jim Moore Verified
| Aopa Pilot Verified
Investments in the 10 state-owned airports lagged for more than a decade, and lawmakers began to consider selling them. That tide is beginning to turn, in no small part thanks to Beta Technologies, founded in Burlington by Vermont native Kyle Clark to build an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that is now among the three leading contenders to achieve FAA certification and enter mass production.
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