Overview
- The FAA issued notices to pilots that take effect immediately and run for 60 days, covering specified zones over Mexico, Central America, Panama, Bogotá, Guayaquil and sections of the eastern Pacific.
- The agency warns of potential hazards from satellite-navigation interference and possible military activities that could affect aircraft at any altitude during cruise, takeoff and landing.
- U.S. operators are urged to exercise heightened caution over the Pacific and the Gulf of California.
- Mexico’s transport ministry says the advisory is a precaution for U.S. carriers and does not restrict domestic civil aviation.
- The safety alerts follow escalated U.S. actions in the region, including reported maritime strikes that killed more than 100 people since September and a January operation in Venezuela that led to Nicolás Maduro’s detention in New York.