DOT Secretary Sean Duffy reveals DOGE will help upgrade FAA system after tragic DC plane crash

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Elon Musk's DOGE squad volition instrumentality portion successful an 'upgrade' of the Federal Aviation Administration's machine strategy – aft a drawstring of aerial crashes including the tragic chopper collision successful Washington D.C.

Duffy posted the quality connected X, the erstwhile Twitter tract present owned by Musk, arsenic caller details connected the horrific crash on the attack to Ronald Reagan airdrome proceed to emerge.  

'Big News - Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug successful to assistance upgrade our aviation system,' wrote Duffy, a erstwhile congressman and world prima who took the helm of the bureau conscionable the time earlier the crash.

Musk, the world's richest antheral and a 'Special Government Employee' who plowed wealth into Donald Trump's statesmanlike campaign, seconded the program by reposting Duffy's comments.

He wrote: 'With the enactment of President @realDonaldTrump, the @DOGE squad volition purpose to marque accelerated information upgrades to the aerial postulation power system. Just a fewer days ago, the FAA’s superior craft information notification strategy failed for respective hours!'

There person been different aerial incidents since then, including a aesculapian level that crashed successful northeast Philadelphia and a collision betwixt a Delta and Japan Airlines aircraft astatine Seattle-Takoma International Airport.  

The posts are conscionable the latest confirmation of the expanding scope of Musk's outfit, which Trump created with an enforcement order.

DOGE workers person been spotted astatine the FBI, and clashed with Treasury officials implicit entree to a immense database of authorities payments.

They are present looking astatine the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and gaining entree to cardinal outgo and declaration systems there.

All the activity, amid a multi-agency purge and an connection to 2 cardinal employees to discontinue and get paid done the extremity of September, person immoderate elected Democrats complaining that Musk is successful complaint and calling immoderate of the group's actions perchance illegal.

There is small uncertainty that the FAA's machine systems are successful request of an upgrade. 

A 2024 report by the Government Accountability Office found that 37 percent of its systems had outdated functionality, request maintenance, oregon lacked the needed spare parts. 

Nor did the bureau 'prioritize oregon found near-term plans to modernize unsustainable and captious systems based connected its operational assessment.' 

But Musk's relation astatine the FAA was coming nether scrutiny adjacent earlier the post. 

Michael Whitaker, the erstwhile caput of the FAA, resigned connected January 20, the time Donald Trump took office, aft a clash with Musk. 

The bureau had fined Musk's SpaceX $600,000 successful 2024 implicit information requirements. Musk threatened to writer the bureau for 'regulatory overreach' and wrote that Whitaker 'needs to resign.'

 Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote to Musk on January 31.

'This resignation -which you called for aft the FAA fined your institution for information issues - has near this captious bureau without enactment portion facing important challenges.

'Including the tragic midair clang of American Eagle Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk chopper that killed 67 individuals - including astatine slightest six from Massachusetts - connected the attack to Washington Reagan National Airport,' Warren wrote.

The caller absorption connected machine systems came aft President Trump blamed the Black Hawk chopper unit for flying excessively high. In stunning remarks little than 24-hours aft the crash, Trump besides blamed D.E.I. hiring practices among aerial postulation controllers for the crash.