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title: "Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit"
type: "News"
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url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/296218952.md"
description: "An FAA air traffic control outage in Minneapolis disrupted over 1,100 flights on August 6th. This incident followed a separate event on August 4th where President Trump's Marine One helicopter failed to communicate with Reagan National Airport controllers, nearly causing a conflict with commercial traffic. The article suggests these operational failures may benefit Palantir."
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# Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit

On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center's 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector.

Two days earlier, on August 4th, President Donald Trump departed the White House inside his Marine One military helicopter. As Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) protocol requires, the pilots tried to contact Reagan National Airport to tell them to halt commercial traffic during the flight. But the air traffic controllers never heard the transmission and cleared a different airplane for takeoff - which came clo …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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