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U.S. FAA reopens Montana airspace shut for defense activities
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mentioned late Saturday it had reopened some airspace in Montana after it was briefly closed for undisclosed Protection Division actions.
The FAA had issued a discover briefly barring flights in an space about 50 by 50 nautical miles round Havre, Montana, close to the Canadian border and classifying the realm as “nationwide protection airspace.”
The FAA mentioned simply earlier than 8:30 p.m. ET the airspace had been reopened.
The FAA declined to say whether or not the directive was associated to a different suspected balloon or object. The FAA issued comparable actions in response to a suspected Chinese language spy balloon that crossed the continental United States from Montana to South Carolina and was shot down earlier this month.
Reporting by David Shepardson, enhancing by Deepa Babington
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