US EditionStarship Explosion Forces Jets to Dodge Debris, Prompts FAA Probe
FAA documents reveal SpaceX's Starship explosion scattered debris for 50 minutes, forcing emergency reroutes of three passenger jets carrying 450 people, creating extreme safety risks.
- A SpaceX Starship explosion forced three passenger jets carrying around 450 people to take evasive maneuvers to avoid debris.
- Controllers had to rapidly reroute aircraft due to potential safety risks from falling debris, with one crew warned to proceed 'at your own risk'.
- The FAA alleges SpaceX failed to notify air traffic control on the official hotline about the explosion, only becoming aware after pilots reported debris.
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Elon Musk's Starship Explosion Endangered Hundreds of Airline Passengers
On January 16, SpaceX conceded that the latest prototype of its enormous Starship spacecraft had “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn” — a tongue-in-cheek admission that the massive rocket had exploded mid-flight. Countless videos circulating online showed a massive stream of reentering pieces of the Starship rocket blazing across the evening sky over the West Indian islands of Turks and Caicos. It was a dazzling s…
An explosion of SpaceX's Starship rocket during a flight test in January placed at least three aircraft at extreme risk while flying over the Caribbean.This was revealed by a recent report by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), according to The Wall Street Journal.The incident occurred less than ten minutes after the launch of the seventh unmanned test flight of the Starship project, driven by the company founded by Elon Mus…
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, the explosion of a SpaceX rocket in January endangered three flights, while inflamed debris was projected into the airspace of the Caribbean region, which is...
The explosion at the beginning of the flight put two commercial aircraft and one private aircraft, with a total of approximately 450 passengers, at risk for about an hour.
The aircraft crossed a temporarily forbidden area for debris. Musk's company warned only after 15 minutes (ANSA)
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