Elon Musk Criticised Over Claims He Took 9-Minute Flight On His Jet

World's richest individual Elon Musk is dealing with criticism on-line after a Twitter person claimed that he took a nine-minute flight from San Jose to San Francisco on his non-public jet. The super-short 35-mile flight came about on Might 6, however Twitter person Hayden Clarkin posted a screenshot of the Tesla CEO's travels over the weekend and it prompted led to a barrage of feedback from different customers who expressed outrage over the carbon footprint left behind by the pinnacle of an electrical automobile firm. The screenshot posted by Mr Clarkin have been initially captured by the automated bot account @ElonJet, which is run by Jack Sweeney, a college pupil who tracks non-public jets owned by celebrities from web sites resembling ADB-B Alternate. Mr Clarkin mentioned in his tweet that the identical distance on an specific prepare would have been 5 stops or practically an hour.

Elon Musk took a 9 minute flight to San Francisco from San Jose, which is 5 stops on Caltrain. I actually haven't any phrases. pic.twitter.com/dToHAkxBFF— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) August 21, 2022

"Elon Musk took a 9 minute flight to San Francisco from San Jose, which is 5 stops on Caltrain. I literally have no words," he wrote on his Twitter deal with named "Transit Guy". "Oh great point, SFO and San Jose would be a stop away from each other on the HSR project he's tried to derail," he mentioned in a follow-up tweet, highlighting how Mr Musk has been a vocal critic of a proposed high-speed rail venture connecting main cities in California. Twitter customers criticised Mr Musk for taking such a brief flight. "But women should have more children to conserve the human race, meanwhile Bad Boys Billionaires can continue making Earth uninhabitable," one person tweeted. "Won't be surprised if ppl found out that 50% of CO2 emission is generated by just 1% of the world's population," mentioned one other. Some customers, in the meantime, identified that US President Joe Biden had lately travelled on Air Pressure One from Washington, DC, to Wilmington, Delaware.

Hay neckbeard; Biden took a 747 from DD to Delaware. 24 minutes… https://t.co/O8zFxSKTI6pic.twitter.com/4ZKPMk6wis— NevilleTheCat (@FearTheFloof) August 22, 2022

Nonetheless, one journalist provided an alternative explanation, saying that the aircraft was probably simply being 'repositioned'.