El Paso Airport Shut Down By The FAA For Special Security Reason
The FAA shut down the EL Paso Airport starting 11:30PM local time, Tuesday night and it will remain closed until 11:30PM Feb 20th.
This was abrupt. Local and State civilian and military authoring received no prior notification.
This affects 1,000 flights, nearly half served by Southwest Airlines.
I did a search on when the last time a US airport was shut down for special security reasons, and it turned up no results. Flights are diverted at times, for a short period of time, when someone like the President or Vice President is landing or taking off, but this is highly unusual.
This was abrupt. Local and State civilian and military authoring received no prior notification.
This affects 1,000 flights, nearly half served by Southwest Airlines.
I did a search on when the last time a US airport was shut down for special security reasons, and it turned up no results. Flights are diverted at times, for a short period of time, when someone like the President or Vice President is landing or taking off, but this is highly unusual.
