{"id":160474,"date":"2026-02-11T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/160474\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:12:09","slug":"officials-claim-drone-incursion-led-to-shutdown-of-el-paso-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/160474\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso AirportThe Federal Aviation Administration lifted an order to ground all flights at El Paso International Airport on Wednesday. The order was initially issued on Tuesday night. Officials claimed a drone incursion prompted the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">The information coming from the administration does not add up, and it\u2019s not the information that I was able to gather overnight and this morning. There was not a threat, which is why the F.A.A. lifted this restriction so quickly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/live-blog-20260211-faa-el-paso-flights-airport-header-gwqp-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>The Federal Aviation Administration lifted an order to ground all flights at El Paso International Airport on Wednesday. The order was initially issued on Tuesday night. Officials claimed a drone incursion prompted the closure.<\/p>\n<p>By Jorge Mitssunaga<\/p>\n<p>February 11, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport transcript Back transcript Officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[65847,1613,138,140,139,65846,2399],"class_list":{"0":"post-160474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-airlinesairplanes","9":"tag-airport","10":"tag-el-paso","11":"tag-el-paso-headlines","12":"tag-el-paso-news","13":"tag-el-paso-tx","14":"tag-faa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}