A team from Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday met with officials from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia, in order to discuss ways to make air travel safer for Americans.
The meeting comes after a series of aviation accidents, including one of the deadliest plane crashes in over a decade. That one occurred last month when an American Airlines passenger plane crashed into a military helicopter, killing all 67 people on board both vessels.
Another plane crash occurred on Monday when a Delta Air Lines jet crashed at the Toronto Pearson airport, and landed upside down. No deaths were reported in the incident, but 18 people were injured.
“America deserves safe, state-of-the-art air travel, and President Trump has ordered that I deliver a new, world-class air traffic control system that will be the envy of the world,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted on X on Sunday. “To do that, I need advice from the brightest minds in America.
“I’m asking for help from any high-tech American developer or company that is willing to give back to our country,” he continued. “Tomorrow, members of Elon Musk’s SpaceX team will be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in VA to get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system.” […]
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