El Paso’s Airspace Debacle
You’d be well within your rights to feel puzzled by the FAA’s sudden 10-day shutdown of the airspace over El Paso yesterday — and its reversal about seven hours later. That extended airspace closure would have been unprecedented.
I found Allyson Versprille‘s rundown helpful. She reports that the Trump administration initially attributed the shutdown to drones operated by Mexican drug cartels that had breached US airspace. But Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said she didn’t have similar information.
Sources later told Allyson that it was the Pentagon flying drones, as part of their work to ...