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Immediate 10 day TFR issued in El Paso due to "special security reasons"

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The audio recording of the tower telling a pilot that the airport is going to be completely closed for next 10 days is crazy/funny: https://x.com/thenewarea51/status/2021455406141432146?s=46

What could be possible the reason?

"A person familiar with the notices, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, said the action to close airspace over a major U.S. for security reasons over extended period hasn’t happened since immediately after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."

https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/unexplained-faa-order-s...

City Councilman Chris Canales: "Hi y’all. This is real, but reason at all to panic. We’re all trying to work out why this crazy NOTAM was issued by the FAA. What I know so far (as of 12:56 AM local time Wednesday):

• It isn’t a typo or an error. FAA issued this NOTAM intentionally as written.

• Nobody local got advance notice — neither civilian nor military leadership.

• Military does not have carte blanche exemption. Army seems to be fretting about their flights tomorrow just as much as everyone else.

• Local air traffic controllers didn’t get advance notice.

• Albuquerque Center (regional air traffic controllers) also did not get advance notice.

I’ll share more updates here as I’m able."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElPaso/comments/1r1qw1j/comment/o4r...

Do you have to be authorized to speak publicly about the history of public notices?

With the current administration, I can easily imagine a lot of people would not be willing to do as much as risk rocking the boat. And that's even if they didn't say other things not included in the published article.

Criticise such fear if you wish, but it's a very human response.

> What could be possible the reason?

I'm just hoping that "special security reasons" isn't going to be in the same category as "special military operation".

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