Elon Musk made a big stink about the FAA system being broken because of this. The system isn’t broken. The pilot didn’t check the notams, plain and simple. Had the pilot checked the notams like they were supposed to, they would have seen there was an active TFR for that airspace. To quote an angry pilot who threw a fuel mat at a co-worker of mine, “This is the stuff that gets people killed!”
I'm glad SWA had the temerity to come out and admit there was a problem with weight on their aircraft. Now if we could just get their pilots to stop going V1 down the taxiways, that would be impressive.
I’m surprised no one has commented on how to prevent the sonic boom that’s associated with flying supersonically. These ships can’t just be made to cross the oceans. Someone’s going to want to have transcontinental transport options available for same day business travel.
