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Renard Johnson: “Whatever information they had that shut down our airspace is…”

Featuring: Renard Johnson, Mayor of El Paso | Texas

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FULL CONFERENCE: El Paso mayor criticizes FAA over airspace shutdown as 'unnecessary decision'

Published | Video Starts at 12:47

Do you think it's because we are a border community that we weren't notified that they just shut down the airspace? Yeah, I don't know that for fact, but I can tell you that, you know, Whatever information they had that shut down our airspace is something that should have been shared with this leadership. That is the piece of information we don't have. And once we get that, we can let the citizens know why they shut it down. (12:47–12:54)

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Asserts that information leading to the airspace shutdown should have been communicated to local leadership.

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