FAA just announced a 10 day emergency temporary restricted area for a 10 mile radius around El Paso.
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AP reporting that it was a possible “miscommunication” between the FAA and military involving operations at Biggs airfield
@mattblaze Well, yes, mis-something, definitely.
Hopefully not a harbinger of things to come.
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Update: TFR appears to have been lifted, effectively immediately.
@mattblaze the 2nd TFR is still in effect
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AP reporting that it was a possible “miscommunication” between the FAA and military involving operations at Biggs airfield
A slip of some DJT appointee's botoxed lips.
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@mattblaze there’s a 2nd TFR on the border to the west in NM
@markrsmith @mattblaze
Yeah, looks like it's made right after the El Paso one and has the same duration. Maybe El Paso was a typo? 😐 -
FAA just announced a 10 day emergency temporary restricted area for a 10 mile radius around El Paso. No flights are permitted from ground level to 18000 feet, grounding all flights to/from the El Paso airport (KELP).
Designed as “national defense airspace”, with “deadly force authorized if aircraft determined to pose a security threat”.
No reason given
@mattblaze Mrs. Vance had a craving for tacos this morning
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@mattblaze @tinker @jianmin My two guesses: it has something to do with mass deportation flights, or it's a practice run for punishing larger blue area. But I think that @cstross has it right: the airport will be involved in or close to a military operation in Mexico.
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @tinker @jianmin @cstross That's also my guess, but as Matt says the Trump regime is so monumentally clumsy and incompetent, you can never rule out Trump having blurted out something certifiably insane yesterday, and the rest of them having fallen into line for their King.
Like I dunno, maybe he just wants 5,000 fresh burritos for his gold-plated industrial-sized freezer, and no-one dared point you can get those in Texas? 🤔🤷🏻♂️
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@mattblaze there’s a 2nd TFR on the border to the west in NM
@markrsmith and another to the east near Fort Hancock, along the border. But these are small and don’t include any major airports. Much more normal.
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AP reporting that it was a possible “miscommunication” between the FAA and military involving operations at Biggs airfield
@mattblaze The airfield reported that item V1098, offog, one, came apart under gravitational stress.
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Update: TFR appears to have been lifted, effectively immediately.
@mattblaze
The TFR on the New Mexico side is still live, covers 30nm along the border maybe 15nm deep. -
AP reporting that it was a possible “miscommunication” between the FAA and military involving operations at Biggs airfield
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@mattblaze @SteveBellovin @tinker @jianmin reports are now that there's a drone "engagement" with mexican "cartels" but of course that would mean the US is almost in a hot war, which would be bad or an excuse for something else. and NOW they're lifting it, saying no harm/no foul.
@squillace @mattblaze @SteveBellovin @tinker
yeah someone pointed me to this post on xitter
https://xcancel.com/i/status/2021592988703453635
no idea how legit it is.
grounding flights because of drone threats from cartels? somehow I don't feel safer than I did 18 months ago.
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I just read that it isn't only El Paso airspace but other US airports as well.
Santa Teresa in New Mexico and New Orleans had similar orders.
I would like to suggest they are just working out the kinks of shutting down all air travel, domestically that or disrupting it on the regular basis.
So much for the freedom of movement
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@squillace @mattblaze @SteveBellovin @tinker
yeah someone pointed me to this post on xitter
https://xcancel.com/i/status/2021592988703453635
no idea how legit it is.
grounding flights because of drone threats from cartels? somehow I don't feel safer than I did 18 months ago.
@jianmin @squillace @mattblaze @tinker The responses to that post are—disturbing.
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@tinker yeah. It’s either an incredibly dumb reason or an incredibly scary reason. Incredibly dumb is more likely than it once was, but we still can’t rule out incredibly scary.
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AP reporting that it was a possible “miscommunication” between the FAA and military involving operations at Biggs airfield
@mattblaze “Miscommunication" including a post on the official airport instagram account, I guess. Sure. What a time to be alive.
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@jianmin @squillace @mattblaze @tinker The responses to that post are—disturbing.
@SteveBellovin @jianmin @squillace @mattblaze - Influence Campaign bots gonna influence campaign.
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FAA just announced a 10 day emergency temporary restricted area for a 10 mile radius around El Paso. No flights are permitted from ground level to 18000 feet, grounding all flights to/from the El Paso airport (KELP).
Designed as “national defense airspace”, with “deadly force authorized if aircraft determined to pose a security threat”.
No reason given