reviewed by the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\nTwo commercial flights and a private jet carrying around 450 passengers in total were left facing dangerous conditions in the skies for up to an hour, the FAA said.<\/p>\n
A failed SpaceX launch allegedly put three aircraft and 450 passengers at risk of debris. Reuters<\/p>\n
The crew of one of the aircraft, a JetBlue flight to San Juan, were warned their journey could only be made \u201cat your own risk,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, two flights \u2014 an Iberia Airlines plane and a private jet \u2014 had to be warned to change course by an air traffic controller after they flew too close to each other following the explosion.<\/p>\n
The planes were forced to divert away from a sudden no-fly zone as \u201cair-traffic controllers scrambled to get planes to safety,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n
One pilot was able to make an emergency landing at San Juan after he repeated \u201cmayday\u201d to an air controller three times, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, all three aircraft were able to land safely without any damage or injuries to passengers or crew.<\/p>\n
SpaceX allegedly failed to notify air traffic control in the immediate aftermath of the explosion via the official hotline, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n
Air controllers in Miami only learned of the explosion\u2019s debris after being alerted by other pilots forced to fly through it, the FAA found.<\/p>\n
The 400-ft rocket exploded over Texas less than 10 minutes after liftoff. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s SpaceX Starship, which flies on the most powerful rocket ever made, launched from Texas in January, flying for around eight minutes before ground staff lost contact with the 400-foot-tall spacecraft.<\/p>\n
Just minutes later, mysterious debris was caught on camera over the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
January\u2019s failed mission\u00a0came just days after Musk launched the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under President Trump.<\/p>\n
SpaceX did not respond immediately to requests for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n
January\u2019s failed launch came just days after SpaceX boss Elon Musk launched DOGE under President Trump\u2019s administration. REUTERS<\/p>\n
The space company confirmed the failed launch at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cStarship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn. Teams will continue to review data from today\u2019s flight test to better understand root cause,\u201d the company said in a statement in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today\u2019s flight will help us improve Starship\u2019s reliability,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n
Following the January explosion, Musk wrote, \u201cSuccess is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed,\u201d in a post on X, the social media platform he owns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX test flight endangered several packed passenger jets when it unexpectedly exploded over the Caribbean earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[19619,19648,11,79,193,1513,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-362942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-air-travel","9":"tag-airplanes","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spacex","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}