by The explosion of a huge SpaceX rocket over South Florida led to massive headaches for air travelers who had to endure unexpected delays due to the recent mishap of the company on Thursday.
The FAA had to hire air traffic in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando for fear of “Start -Start -Rümmert”, after the SpaceX failure.
“After all my years, this was a first one,” wrote a Facebook user who identified himself as a pharmaceutical Executive Ray Peck after his flight to South America was forced to land in Miami.
Peck, the CEO of VXP Pharma in Indianapolis, had just taken a connecting flight from Miami to Medellín, Colombia, when his flight had to turn back to Mia.
“This was an absolute first,” said Peck, 62, NBC News from Colombia, where he ended up almost five hours early Friday morning.
“I have never had a situation in which I had to say: ‘No, I am not too late because of a missed connection, a mechanical problem or even a unruly passenger. Yes, our flight was delayed and had to return to Miami because a rocket exploded over our heads and fell down the parts,” he added.
Peck added that after the pilot’s announcement, the passengers bound in Colombia excluded their windows for possible space supports.
“Everyone was looking for and wondered if they would see parts of this rocket that pass the plane,” he said. “If it had been, ‘Oh, here is a rocket engine that disappointed the orbiting that would not have been good.”
The traveler Jesse Winans, who was on a flight from Costa Rica to Charlotte, could only look at the incredulously when he and his fellow flyers were forced to stay in Fort Lauderdale.
“They try to deal with customers, but I think it will be a long process to get where we go,” the angry traveler told NBC South Florida.
Rümmer from a SpaceX rocket over the Bahamas on Thursday.
SpaceX, which experienced a similar mishap in January, swore again to learn from this latest failure.
“We will check the data from today’s flight test to better understand the basic cause,” said Tje Company in a statement on Thursday evening. “As always, the success comes from what we learn and today’s flight offers additional lessons to improve the reliability of the Starship.”
Or as Musk tried to explain more precisely: “Rakets are hard.”
This article was originally published on nbcnews.com
