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this was not a critically dangerous situation, was it? no, absolutely not. as you well know. no, there s a large number, probably 125, 150 of the airports in our country that take commercial flights are either not powered, or they, you know, the towers shut down at a certain time. pilots know the procedures, it s perfectly safe. jon: but, i guess, what part of the reason this controller may have fallen asleep is that there just isn t a lot of traffic at midnight, 12:30 in the morning at ronald reagan. traffic backs off dramatic dramatically after 9:00, but it s still very disturbing. the potomac center tried to reach him by phone, and they also, apparently, tried to use their shout box which is this direct communication to the tower that the volume is set at a high level so that be there is an if there is an emergency, they can reach him and get the
operational duties. i am determined to get to the bottom of the situation for the safety of the traveling public. he goes onto say as a former pilot i am personally outraged that this controller did not meet his responsibilities to help land the two planes. fortunately at no point was either plane out of radar contact and our back up system kicked in to assure the safe landing of both of those planes. we spoke with ntsb managing director peter gelts who said this guy was not merely a sleep, he was really a sleep. traffic backs off dramatically at reagan after 9 look. it is very disturbing. the center tried to reach him by phone and they also apparently tried to use their shout box, which is this direct communication to the tower that the volume is set at a high level, so that if there is an emergency the tracon can reach