Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) is demanding answers from the Trump administration over a mysterious plane crash he alleges the U.S. military “definitely had a role to play” in, a fight one journalist called Monday a “fight worth watching.”

On May 14, a medical transport aircraft crashed into the side of a mountain after its pilots “got disoriented,” Wired first reported – a crash that coincided with nearby military testing at the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. All four occupants died.

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While the crash has not been decisively linked to the nearby military testing, Vasquez launched an effort to get to the bottom of the incident with a set of demands issued to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Specifically, Vasquez requested a joint briefing between Transportation and Defense officials to take questions regarding the incident.

Writing in an analysis published Monday on her Substack, veteran journalist Alissa Valdes-Rodriguez called Vasquez’s demand the “one accountability mechanism actually in motion.”

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“Whether that letter becomes a hearing, or evaporates into the Pentagon’s favorite phrase – cannot comment while under investigation – [it’s] the fight worth watching,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote.

She also stressed the urgency of getting to the bottom of the plane crash given the federal government’s years-long reluctance to acknowledge the health impact on New Mexico residents from nuclear testing in the state starting in the 1940s.

“Now four coffins have come off a mountain, a month of wildfire has come off the same crash, and the families of Keelan Clark, Ali Kawsara, Sarah Clark and Jamie Novick have joined a long New Mexican tradition – the tradition of being what the country flies its experiments over because someone in a briefing decided nobody down there was quote important enough to protect,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote.

“We have seen this movie before. We know how it ends when Washington decides our sky and land near White Sands is a place to test a weapon, even with people there. We know because the mushroom cloud is still in our mothers’ and grandmothers’ medical records.”