[Drago]

ATC audio and other links follow...

[Drago]

ATC Audio with SWA:
https://x.com/thenewarea51/status/2021455406141432146?s=20

https://www.outback.com/menu/springfieldeugene/category/50622

Additional airspace restriction near ELP:
https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2234

[married21]

I’ve never heard of anything like this, post 9-11. What the heck is going on?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Unusual shut down if a fairly major airport for 10 days....national security? Terror threat? Or ???

This is very strange, particularly since the prohibited air space borders Mexico. I can think of two possibilities:

1. Intel was received about some sort of air threat to the El Paso/SE New Mexico area.

2. Holloman AFB is near El Paso (95 miles away). Could it be the base for some sort of upcoming military operation?

[SaveFerris]

Interesting 🤔🤔🤔

[frank ballenger]

Has there been anything like this except for 9/11?

I know “immigrants” are often hired to do baggage handling and various airport duties, and there used to be discussions of how many Arabs were hired in the 2000s.

But some of the dangerous Biden era illegals now may be preparing their big event.
We were all warned.

Shoulder mounted small missiles. Explosives put on aircraft as part of maintenance. Sudden arrival of automatic weapon armed groups on the tarmac. Devices to interfere with instruments. Swarms of drones suddenly unleashed.

If there are any Chinese agents watching the airport as in several other cities where they bought “agricultural land”
maybe they could share their surveillance data (JUST KIDDING).

[Candor7]

[noiseman]

Someone discovered a jar of salsa from “New York City?!” and they created a security perimeter around the area to ensure no one touches it?

[maddog55]

I’m guessing incoming alien 👽 craft just to be different.

[Sirius Lee]

Terror threat? Or???

Tarkus on the runway.

[Envisioning]

Lack of personal for air traffic control? TC systems failures?…..or aliens, either kind.

[Mashood]

Sewer gas?

[noiseman]

I just checked on ForeFlight, and the TFR says it is for a 10NM radius around essentially the El Paso airport, and up to 17,999’ MSL. If that were the whole thing, I would lean toward the MANPADs theory. The TFR extending to 17,999’ means that they wanted to leave Class A airspace, which starts at 18,000’, open for aircraft passing overhead at cruising altitude. That, and the 10NM radius would make sense because of the limited range of shoulder-fired missiles.

BUT, the fact that this TFR also includes a separate, fairly large area of airspace right against the Mexican border in a desolate area of southern New Mexico is strange if taking down commercial or other aircraft with MANPADs were the issue.

[Yo-Yo]

Biggs Army Airfield (Ft. Bliss) is right next door to El Paso International.

I wonder if something related to Mexican Cartels is happening at Ft. Bliss?

[TheThirdRuffian]

Called a buddy who is stationed at Holloman AFB.

They had no warning either, which he took as indication this is not a drill or test of any kind.

[TornadoAlley3]

Drills.

[Tunehead54]

No mention of White House schedules and New Mexico.

I’d look there 1st.

😎

[norwaypinesavage]

It’s noteworthy that this airport is within the radius of possible locations for Nancy Guthrie.

[PIF]

Its about the current 24/7 media obsession with the Guthery woman.

[FrankRizzo890]

What’s really strange to me is the fact that it includes general aviation. If you’re concerned that some jackleg baggage handler is going to put a bomb on a commercial plane, why would it include doctor Steve flying his 210-R?

[frank ballenger]

We were forced to see that typical nebbish Democrat Mayor Renard Johnson with his panties in a bunch over the shutdown.

Another of the typical whiny Dem politicians who seem to infest the whole country.