FAA warns about flying in Central, South America and eastern Pacific, citing possible ‘military activities’

The Federal Aviation Administration warned pilots of U.S. airlines astir flying over the eastbound Pacific Ocean adjacent Mexico, Central America and parts of South America, citing imaginable "military activities" and satellite navigation interference. 

The informing was issued Friday successful a bid of Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) distributed by the FAA, which said, "Potential risks beryllium for craft astatine each altitudes, including during overflight and the accomplishment and departure phases of flight." 

"The FAA issued formation advisory Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) for specified areas of Mexico, Central American, Panama, Bogata, Guayaquil, and Mazatlán Oceanic Flight Regions, and successful airspace wrong the eastbound Pacific Ocean," the bureau besides told USA Today. 

It’s unclear what prompted the advisories, which archer craft operators to "exercise caution." Fox News Digital has reached retired to the FAA for comment.

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An airplane carrying Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro and his woman Cilia Flores arrives earlier their scheduled tribunal quality astatine Manhattan national court, astatine Stewart Air National Guard Base successful Newburgh, N.Y., connected Jan. 3, 2026.  (Mike Segar/Reuters)

The notices travel after months of U.S. subject strikes against suspected drug-trafficking boats successful the Caribbean Sea and the eastbound Pacific. 

In November, the FAA had warned each pilots to workout caution erstwhile flying successful the airspace implicit Venezuela "due to the worsening information concern and heightened subject activity." 

In December, a JetBlue formation from the Caribbean federation of Curaçao halted its ascent to debar colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker.

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Earlier this month, the Trump medication carried retired a subject cognition capturing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. 

President Donald Trump besides precocious told Fox News that the U.S. volition grow operations against cause cartels.  

"We've knocked retired 97% of the drugs coming successful by water, and we are going to commencement present hitting land," Trump told Fox News big Sean Hannity successful aboriginal January. "The cartels are moving Mexico, it’s precise bittersweet to ticker and spot what’s happened to that country."

U.S. Southern Command released footage showing a precision onslaught by U.S. forces connected a narcotics vas operated by a designated violent enactment successful the Eastern Pacific connected Nov. 15, 2025. (US Southern Command)

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The latest FAA notices volition beryllium successful effect for 60 days. 

Fox News Digital’s Nora Moriarty and The Associated Press contributed to this report.