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Renard Johnson: “Our airport was in chaos. Our community was scared.”

Featuring: Renard Johnson, Mayor of El Paso | Texas

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El Paso mayor blasts FAA for what he calls "unnecessary" airspace closure

Published | Video Starts at 05:52

Because you just cannot. Again, we're a major city. El Paso is a large city. You cannot just shut down a city. There was people coming to El Paso. Our airport was in chaos. Our community was scared. All because someone decided to shut down our airspace. You just cannot do that. And they lifted it real quick. So we've got to figure out what the root cause of that problem was. (05:52–05:57)

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