{"id":161969,"date":"2026-02-12T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:03:08","slug":"senate-democrats-connect-el-paso-aviation-incident-to-dca-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161969\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Connect El Paso Aviation Incident to DCA Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, highlights how a lack of coordination between the military and federal agencies continues to endanger the public one year after a mid-air collision near Washington, Senate Democrats said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The <a data-terminal-id=\"TABHWNKJH6V5\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/texas-brief\/drones-drugs-and-laser-beams-stir-confusion-over-texas-skies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FAA appears to have acted<\/a> out of concern about possible dangers from nearby weapons testing when it closed airspace with no public notice earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday\u2019s incident in El Paso reminds me of why this interagency coordination is so important,\u201d Sen. Maria Cantwell (Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, said at a Thursday hearing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sudden closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, highlights how a lack of coordination between the military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6207,138,140,139,32846],"class_list":{"0":"post-161969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-aviation","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-headlines","11":"tag-el-paso-news","12":"tag-military-and-defense"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161969","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=161969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}