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Alamogordo Daily Digest Saturday, May 16, 2026

Ty McDuffey

16 May 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

Four people gone in a medical flight that didn't make it home—that's the kind of loss that settles hard in a town built around aviation and emergency response. We don't have details yet, and Lincoln County's still working through what happened near Capitan, but in a community where Holloman and the Range are part of the fabric, where pilots and flight crews are neighbors, this one hits different. Meanwhile, down south in Tularosa, the Rose Festival is back after time away, and up in the canyons around Three Rivers, people are still finding stories carved into rock that predate all of us. Days like this remind you that this basin holds both the old and the urgent—ancient mysteries and modern tragedies, celebration and grief, all at once.

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4 dead in medical plane crash near Capitan. Lincoln County investigating. Here’s what we know

A medical transport plane carrying four TransAero crew members crashed near Capitan on Thursday morning while traveling from Roswell to Sierra Blanca, killing all aboard. The King Air aircraft lost communications with ground personnel, and wreckage was discovered near the Capitan Wilderness Area;...

Guitar & Pen: Exploring cave art in New Mexico’s 3 Rivers region

Archaeologist Margaret Berrier will present a comparison of Mimbres ceramics and Jornada rock art next Tuesday at Otero Arts, exploring the striking similarities between these two ancient cultures' artistic expressions in New Mexico's Three Rivers region.

Tularosa Celebrates Historic Return of the Rose Festival

The Village of Tularosa recently revived its Rose Festival after years of absence, allowing the "City of Roses" to celebrate its heritage with the community gathering for the historic event.

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