The Federal Aviation Authority’s (FAA) efforts to provide critically needed upgrades to its air traffic control system are failing. That was according to Elon Musk from his time as head of the Department of Government Efficiency. The current secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy, fought Musk repeatedly over the latter’s attempts to streamline the entire air traffic control (ATC) apparatus. 

Take, for instance, the recent near-collision between a B-52H long-range bomber and a SkyWest jet in the bucolic skies over North Dakota. Here is an instance where Musk was right, and Duffy was very wrong. Because this near miss was entirely the result of a failing ATC system. 

On July 18 of this year, during the opening day of the North Dakota State Fair in Minot, North Dakota, a potentially catastrophic incident unfolded when a US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber nearly crashed into SkyWest Airlines Flight 3788, an Embraer ERJ-175........

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