Shout Line News Today

Source, the american airlines pilot made several attempt to contact the tower and got no response. another controller in the area tried to contact the tower as well using a dialup line and a shout line which allows the callers voice to be heard inside the tower. those planes landed without clearance from the reagan tower. a manager at potomac got the cryptic response that someone was there the whole time. speculation was it might have been someone falling asleep on the job.