{"id":15940,"date":"2026-08-18T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15940"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:01:01","slug":"elon-musk-made-flying-even-worse-so-palantir-could-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15940","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Darryl Campbell<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 18, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elon Musk and Peter Thiel\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\ufeffImage: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/268692_Elon_Musk_tore_down_the_FAA_so_Peter_Thiel_could_build_it_back_up_CVirginia.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center <a href=\"https:\/\/aerocorner.com\/news\/minneapolis-artcc-atc-zero-outage\/\">lost radar and communications for around two hours<\/a>. The outage disrupted more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelpulse.com\/news\/impacting-travel\/air-traffic-control-outage-delays-flights-across-midwest\">1,100 flights<\/a> across the center&#8217;s 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8211; which came clo \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/981194\/faa-air-traffic-elon-musk-peter-thiel-palantir\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/981194\/faa-air-traffic-elon-musk-peter-thiel-palantir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darryl Campbell &bull; August 18, 2026 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&#8217;s 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. Two days earlier, on August 4th, President Donald Trump departed the White House inside his<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15940\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}