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Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

#41
I wonder if the dormant volcanic field west of El Paso that is covered by the TFR may be similar to Iranian volcanic mountains?

Remember, the Netanyahoo just arrived in the US mere hours before this and it is always a bad omen when the devil comes to collect.

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

#42

Here's a direct link to the notice: https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2233 Temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) tend to be pretty terse, but they do usually call out "VIP" if they're due to someone visiting. The type listing of "security" gets thrown around a lot, though. For example there's a permanent security TFR around the closest Air Force base to me ( https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_5_8746 ) because…

No exemptions for medical life flights, local law enforcement, or even the military. You can read a more normal NOTAM posted for New Orleans likely for Mardi Gras (https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2231)

As a Minnesotan I wonder what this does to the deportation flights going to and from Camp East Montana.

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

#43
Could it be that USA government believe that Iran might be trying to do something similar to the Ukraine operation spiderweb, where they attacked the Russian long distance bomber fleet with short distance FPV drones? While there aren't bombers at Fort Bliss. As far as I know there are other high value targets.

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

#46
If there were some mundane reason for the shutdown (e.g. ATC staffing, or volcanic ash) it wouldn't be a secret, and if there were an emergency (one severe enough to ground all aircraft for so song) we would've heard or seen something.

Occam's Razor says, this order came down from Trump. If that's the case, only question remaining would be what is he planning.

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

#47
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First of all, you want "font". Second of all, don't do that.

Or "fount" from older, non-American English.

Fount is definitely more correct. If we're talking a baptismal font, then it's font, but if were talking a fount of knowledge, the correct term is fount with font sometimes being used but derived from fount.

Etymology 1, meaning 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fount

Etymology 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/font

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

#48
post #38
post #17

Nuclear weapons test? The latest test treaty just expired. Edit: There are two TFRs, one in El Paso and one right next to it in the mountains: https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2234

I think not; it's not somewhere you can conduct a nuclear test without starting a war with Mexico. However it is interesting to look at the TFR area in Google maps; it looks just like a nuclear test site, but the craters are natural volcanoes.

Mexico isn’t going to start a war with the US. it would last a week at most, and they’d end up glowing even more than if the us ‘downwinded’ them all year.

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

#50
post #31

Launching the invasion of Canada and Greenland perhaps..

Aren't those countries thousands of miles away from El Paso, Texas?

Please understand, Geography is only taught for optional extra credit in American schools.

(I wish this were a joke.)

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