FAA chief quit on Jan. 20 after Elon Musk told him to resign
FAA chief quit on Jan. 20 after Elon Musk told him to resign
Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”
Summary
FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker resigned on Jan. 20, leaving the agency leaderless amid a major aviation crisis.
His departure followed months of clashes with Elon Musk, who criticized the FAA for imposing $600,000 in fines on SpaceX and called for Whitaker’s resignation.
Musk accused the FAA of obstructing space exploration.
Whitaker's exit comes as the FAA faces air traffic controller shortages and a major runway collision investigation.
Why the fuck is this racist apartheid loving non elected fuck have any say‽
Because the elected racist, apartheid loving fuck gave him the power. Money buys politicians, politicians make the rich even more so.
It's a big party and we're not invited
We elected a CEO to be president, essentially adding the country itself to his business portfolio. He's obviously going to trade a part of that power to other CEOs in exchange for favors and loyalty to benefit himself. It's nothing more than a business deal to exploit the country and its people for profits, something all wealthy business owners are familiar with, and something Trump didn't even try to hide his plans to do if he was elected.
And run it into the toilet like Xitter 🚽
Because of trump voters and non-voters.
No sign of blatant corruption and conflict of interest here, move along please
I'm sure last night's deadly plane crash is just a coincidence...
Most likely. Like you ask a guy to resign and everything doesn’t instantly crumble. Like I’m sure it can’t help with ATC shortages, but to assume this is related to that is just a massive reach.
Trump is a horrible person and Elon is a cunt, but this seemed like it would happen at some point given DC has a lot of low flying choppers.
Exactly. With that being said, ATC shortages are a serious, serious problem. I'm honestly surprised it hasn't made more headlines, but maybe that will be a silver lining to this crash. Most major ATC facilities are dangerously understaffed with controllers working mandatory overtime. They are not hiring and training people nearly fast enough to account for the amount of controllers that are set to retire.
I'm good with the TSA being destroyed. That was just pork barrel politics and security theater from the start.
Lol