Following the Tesla Cybertruck his friends had climbed into late one night around Thanksgiving last year, Matthew Riordan spotted a fire blazing in the distance.
The Cybertruck had crashed into a tree and wedged itself against a retaining wall, trapping his friends inside the burning car. He rushed to pull them from a growing blaze — one that would soon engulf the cabin.
Navigating 10-foot flames, he arrived at the truck. But the bulletproof door, opened electronically by a hidden push button, wouldn’t budge.
The back passenger door also stayed shut when he tried its push button. “Just did not work,” Riordan recalled in a deposition collected in litigation over the crash.
Riordan began to panic. He had watched a video of a steel ball shattering the window of a Cybertruck, which is built with “armor glass” and designed to be “tough on the outside.” He picked up a tree branch and pummeled the window with roughly a dozen blows.
A SpaceX test flight that was ‘destroyed’ less than ten minutes after its launch in January put multiple passenger jets in serious danger while in flight over the Caribbean.
The seventh un-crewed Starship test flight was CEO Elon Musk’s latest attempt to make life on Mars a reality and took place days before he launched the Department of Government Efficiency in President Donald Trump’s White House.
Federal Aviation Administration documents now show the collateral peril the explosion put three flights in that evening, including a JetBlue trip to San Juan whose crew was told their onward journey could only be made ‘at your own risk.’
Those risks included possible scattering of debris from the sky across the Caribbean for almost an hour.
A controller needed to intervene after two planes flew too close to one another following the explosion.
The three planes were carrying a total of 450 people and were fortunately able to land safely after declaring fuel emergencies and traveling through a temporary no-fly zone, WSJ reported.
When an air controller told one of the aircrafts’ pilots they would have to declare an emergency to land at San Juan, the response came: ‘In that case we declare emergency: Mayday. Mayday. Mayday.’
After the rocket explosion Musk posted on X ‘Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed’.
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