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The faa is trying to figure out what in the world happened at reagan national airport. two planes coming in for a landing trying to get a hold of air traffic controllers so they could land their planes. no response. the pilots were forced to land on their own. keep in mind, the plane had passengers aboard and the airport is two miles away from the white house. this went down on wednesday. one of the pilots after no response contacted a regional air traffic control to you per. listen. >> american...

Even if theyre away from home. its more than advaed technology. its the at&t network -- a network of possibilities, creating and integrating solutions, helping business, and the world...work. rethink possible. martha: fox news alert, brand-new developments in an investigation at one of the nations busiest airports. the faa we are being told has suspended the air traffic controller who reportedly fell asleep on the job whaoeupl he was supposed to be bringing in two fairly large passenger jets. th...

Released the images from inside a control room where we are see ing what we believe to be workers with haz-mat suits and masks and we are told this photograph shows the damage at a security gate and here we are told workers are checking gages near a damaged reactor. workers took this picture when they restored power to the control room. right now crews are working to restore the power to the cooling systems. the white house has said that it would hand off leadership to the operation in libya in ...

Without any guidance from the air traffic controller. apparently the controller was asleep on the job. sherry lee live for us now at reagan national airport in washington, d.c. with the very latest. good morning to you. >> good morning. talk about a very dangerous situation. as a result of what happened, transportation secretary ray lahood has ordered that there be at least two controllers in the tower here at reagan national airport on that midnight shift. those two planes you can think about i...

>>shepard: federal aviation administration suspended the air traffic controller who fell asleep on the job. two commercial jets landed at reagan national airport in washington, dc, without clearance or guidance because someone was asleep. but the planes landed safely. here is the pilots of the two planes. >> so you are aware, the tower is ... not manned. we made a few phone calls and no one is answers. two airplanes went in, the last 10 or 15 minutes. >> is there a reason it is not manned? >> i ...

Notified by the operation center of the tower problem. >> united 628, just so youre aware, weve had one aircraft go into dca. the tower is apparently unmanned. >> reporter: it landed safely too, and the tower controller was back on the radio about five minutes later. but a former airline pilot calls it a serious lapse. >> of all the airports on the planet, this is the worst one for that to happen to. lets face it, that airport sits within a baseball throw of the pentagon, of the white house, of ...

Controller and the ntsb will be investigating as well as the faa. what the controller did at the radar facility was located in a remote location that controls all the traffic in the washington, d.c. area, until it lined up another runway and they go over to the tower frequency is this is controller there, just as we heard, instructed him to land at a different or uncontrolled airport and i would point out, u.s. airlines operate in one or two uncontrolled airports routinely. heather: lets be more...

Januarys attack in which six people were gunned down. now to a story that shocked even us, even though we work the tough overnight hours. staffing at air traffic control towers around the country is being reviewed after two planes were forced to land at one of the nations busiest airports without the towers help. the lone controller apparently nodded off. jim sciutto reports from reagan national. >> reporter: for more than 20 harrowing minutes the tower at reagan national airport had gone omin...

Radiation. from what we understand, they were dragging a power cable through the basement of one of those reactors, underneath some of that machinery and were exposed to water that was contaminated. they were taken to the hospital. thats direct exposure, thats not radiation exposure out in the air, so it doesnt affect people outside the plant, but certainly tough for those workers and speaks to just how hard this job really is. contessa? >> lee, thank you so much. we just received this in. the...

>> american 1900, so youre aware, the tower is, apparently, not manned. jon: that was the conversation between an american airlines flight and a controller who is responsible for a wider geographical area, potomac control. apparently, the only air traffic controller in the actual tower at reagan national airport was not locked out. reportedly, that controller was asleep. luckily, that plane and another one actually landed safely. how could this happen at a major airport serving our nations capit...