Sean Duffy offers explanation for unprecedented air closure: 'Threat has been neutralized'
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Secretary Sean Duffy blamed a "drone incursion" by Mexican cartels after closing the airspace over El Paso, Texas.
FAA ordered a 10-day shutdown of El Paso's airspace, then reversed it hours later
Late Tuesday, the FAA ordered every aircraft out of the sky over El Paso — commercial flights, cargo, private planes, medevac helicopters, police — for 10 days, citing "national defense" and threatening to shoot down anything that flew.