of diverting to a different airport. that is the fa s reponce and experts are wondering why the government didn t respond much faster? from a safety perspective put two people in the plane to make sure the plane lands and they are in control and look at radar and do all of those things. what needs to happen in the case of dc, is figuring out why the department of homeland security and why the department of defense and why the reagan national airport police were not notified to check on the tower to make sure there was not a more serious situation up there. amid all of the talk about spending cuts in washington, first thing traption secretary ray lahood was add another controller in the overnight shift. and the chairman of the national traption committee said based on how much overnight traffic that is a typical burrcratic response,