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FAA ordered a 10-day shutdown of El Paso’s airspace, then reversed it hours later

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 11, 2026
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El Paso Airport, the busiest commercial airport in West Texas. (Kate Scott/shutterstock.com)

Late Tuesday, the FAA ordered every aircraft out of the sky over El Paso — commercial flights, cargo, private planes, medevac helicopters, police — for 10 days, citing “national defense” and threatening to shoot down anything that flew. No one in city government,…

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