The Verge Traces a Two-Hour FAA Radar Outage to the Musk-Thiel-Palantir Air Traffic Overhaul
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On August 6 the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for roughly two hours, disrupting more than 1,100 flights across its 330,000-square-mile airspace. The Verge's August 17 piece argues the failure traces back to how the FAA modernization contract was steered toward Palantir. It's a rare, quantified case study of what happens when a Silicon Valley data platform is inserted into a safety-critical legacy system on a political timeline.