The US Transport Minister Sean Duffy said that he spoke to the Trump administration consultant and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk in regards to the reform of the country's airspace and nervous in regards to the use of helicopter in Washington, DCS crowded airspace by the military last week.
“I had a conversation with Elon Musk yesterday, rather remarkable guy. He thinks differently than I think, probably many of us, but he has access to the best technological people, the best engineers in the world,” said Duffy on Wednesday at a road traffic event in Washington. “We will make our airspace new and we will do it quickly.”
Duffy's comments come every week after a Black Hawk helicopter of the military collided with a American airlines Regional Jetliner, who was only a number of moments from landing on Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. All 64 people on the American flight and the three military crew on the Black Hawk, which was on a training mission, were killed. It was the deadliest flight accident within the United States since 2001.
Trump has commissioned Musk to steer the so -called Department of Government efficiency Get access On data similar to the payment systems of the financial department. Musk didn’t immediately answer a request for comments.
SpaceX, along with other space corporations, shares the airspace with industrial aircraft. The FAA, which monitors the US air space, also monitors Musks SpaceX. Last 12 months, Musk threatened to sue FAA for “overall regulation” when the agency didn't prefer it as quickly as he wished.
Last month, a rocket within the Starship suffered a single leaf failure that led to a field of ruins near the Caribbean islands and had been redirected or delayed by industrial flights to avoid the realm.
For years, US airlines have been a further financing for the modernization of US air traffic control systems and a further setting of air traffic people with a view to contain an absence of lack.
Duffy didn’t work on the potential changes to the US airspace management.
Duffy said that an air traffic controller had treated each aircraft and helicopter traffic on the time of the crash and that he’ll “look at the guidelines and the procedures in the tower”.
“We will withdraw this authority to ensure that we have the right guidelines in our towers to ensure that they are safe,” he said.
Duffy said civil servants have to have a look at the safety of the implementation of military training missions at night.
“And if we have generals that fly from this airspace into helicopter, that's not acceptable,” he said. “Go to a damn suburb and drive. You don't have to take a helicopter.”
The US Army didn’t comment immediately. The Pentagon rejected an announcement.
The National Transportation Safety Board, which leads the examination of the crash of last week, remains to be examining the reason for the fatal collision.
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