Trump fires hundreds of air traffic maintenance staff when Spacex visits the FAA Command Center

The Trump Administration has begun to fire hundreds of federal aviation administration officials who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, CNN reportsS The dismissals that started late on Friday night, come as SpaceX of Elon Musk has been eavesdropped To help create a new air traffic control system.

It is not yet clear how many workers were fired, but professional aviation safety specialists (PASS) The Union says they have hit test workers or new hires in a trial period. Workers were not air traffic controllers who have been deficient due to a shortage of staff that have been going on for decades.

On Friday, workers received emails on a late night, telling them that they were fired, according to David Scharo, president of Pass Union. Workers include people hired for FAA radar, landing and navigation support, according to the air traffic controller who speaks with Associated Press provided anonymity.

Special noted that employees were fired “for no reason, nor on the basis of performance or behavior.” The emails did not come from a government email address; They came from “Microsoft’s Email Address to order Microsoft.”

The Congress has asked the FAA to deal with a model of close gaps and to modernize critical systems for years, and experts say the agency has not acted on known issues.

The news comes only weeks after January Fatal collision in the middle of the air At the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in DC, where a controller was dealing with both helicopter and trafficking at a busy airport. Several other crashes have happened since then.

Days after Washington’s crash in January, Musk wrote on x The fact that Trump has given the approval of his team at Moge (the Ministry of Government) to “make rapid improvements to the safety of the air traffic control system.”

Neither Musk nor Trump shared what these safety improvements would be.

Musk’s Spacex team members visit the Virginia Air Traffic Command Center on Monday to “look at first hand, to learn what the air traffic controllers are and not to like their current tools and to predict how we can Let’s make a new new, better, modern and more fascinating system, “Sean Duffy, Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, in a PostS