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Veronica Escobar: “The FAA did not provide any advance notice except for the…”

Featuring: Veronica Escobar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 16

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LIVE | El Paso Rep Veronica Escobar Speaks About FAA Reopening Airport Airspace in Texas | N18G

Published | Video Starts at 11:27

And I've been on the phone all night and all morning talking to a number of different leaders, both in D.C. and locally. And The FAA did not provide any advance notice except for the two-hour notice that within two hours we're going to be shutting down airspace for the next 10 days. So the, in fact, on Twitter you can actually hear there's a conversation that's been uploaded between an air traffic controller and a Southwest Airlines pilot where the air traffic controller is alerting the Southwest Airlines pilot. (11:27–11:45)

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Asserts that the FAA only gave a two-hour notice before shutting down airspace.

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