A team from Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday met with officials from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia, in order to discuss ways to make air travel safer for Americans.

The meeting comes after a series of aviation accidents, including one of the deadliest plane crashes in over a decade. That one occurred last month when an American Airlines passenger plane crashed into a military helicopter, killing all 67 people on board both vessels. 

Another plane crash occurred on Monday when a Delta Air Lines jet crashed at the Toronto Pearson airport, and landed upside down. No deaths were reported in the incident, but 18 people were injured. 

"America deserves safe, state-of-the-art air travel, and President Trump has ordered that I deliver a new, world-class air traffic control system that will be the envy of the world," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted on X on Sunday. "To do that, I need advice from the brightest minds in America.

"I’m asking for help from any high-tech American developer or company that is willing to give back to our country," he continued. "Tomorrow, members of Elon Musk's SpaceX team will be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in VA to get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system."

Duffy claimed that the visit was not "special treatment" as he knew some Democrats would attempt to argue, because his agency gives tours of the command center to media and companies.

The secretary also said that he would be flying to the FAA Academy in Oklahoma later in the week to meet with students and teachers at the facility who are working to become air traffic controllers, in order to learn about the education process they go through.

Neither Duffy nor Musk have commented on how the meeting went.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.