A former Federal Aviation Administration chief said Wednesday that it’s a “complete and utter fabrication” that entrepreneur Elon Musk forced out the head of the flight safety agency on President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day.
To the contrary, the incoming Trump administration “implored” former FAA head Mike Whitaker to stay until a new administrator was in place, Daniel Elwell, deputy and later acting FAA administrator during Trump’s first term, told radio station WMAL on Wednesday.
After a midair collision on Jan. 29 near Washington, D.C.’s Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67, left-leaning media outlets quickly moved to blame Trump and Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO who Trump named to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency initiative. Musk’s SpaceX was also fined by the FAA under Whitaker.
Whitaker, the FAA administrator…
