Closing of El Paso Airspace Adds to Tension Between F.A.A. and Pentagon

Scritto il 13/02/2026
da Kate Kelly, Karoun Demirjian and Eric Schmitt

The Federal Aviation Administration is charged with flight safety, and the Defense Department with national security. Those missions keep colliding.A passenger carried his suitcase at El Paso International Airport after the F.A.A. lifted its temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso.