And I just gotta specifically call out the General Aviation pilots and their bootlicker comments on reddit about how pilots are trained to navigate without GPS, and the pilot should have aborted the landing approach. And yeah, in retrospect the pilot should have... but this was a medevac flight, and so the pilot is in the position of potentially sacrificing the life of the patient they were flying out to pick up.

There's an obvious counter-factual: what if the military didn't jam GPS that night. Hell, it's not like the government didn't know their flight plan, how about just turning off the jammers for a couple of hours?? But the concept of a government working for the people on stuff like that is alien to Americans.

list of flexible phrases (with some other options to explore in the permutations):

-known instance (swept-under-the-rug instance, unverified instance)

-military (paramilitary, police, civilian)

-GPS jamming (EMP, communications jamming)

-played a role (did, caused, was behind, happened close to)

-downing (exploding, grounding, disappearing)

-civilian plane (terrorist-linked plane, unknown plane, plane claimed to be civilain by [insert enemy country])

-in US airspace (in the world, over this specific mountain range, in civilian airspace)

I like the combination:

'It's the first unverified instance where paramilitary EMP happened close to an exploding terrorist-linked plane above the Mississippi River'

or the simple removal of most of it, which the writers hope you imagine when you read it:

'It’s the first instance where US GPS jamming happened close to a non-combatant plane'

Very true, before the "end of history" there were definitely a lot more attempts at envisioning better future.