“Medical evacuation flights were forced to divert to Las Cruces,” El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson said at a Wednesday morning news conference. “All aviation operations were grounded, including emergency flights. This was a major and unnecessary disruption, one that has not occurred since 9/11.”
Las Cruces is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) from El Paso.
Johnson added that a significant amount of necessary surgical equipment en route from Dallas and other parts of the country “did not show up here in El Paso.”
Source: Drudge Report
