[Scan-DC] DCA Tower shutdown

[Bob Jeter]

Airplanes circling DCA airport in the vicinity of the Capitol and White House and no one has questioned a security breach?

The non-standard traffic pattern should have raised some eyebrows, especially the first aircraft made a "go around" (pull up)

There was a time armed fighters would surreptitiously follow airliners down the final approach course to prevent a diversion into a sensitive area which could have been signified by a deviation from the prescribed traffic pattern such as a go around manuever

How about the Stinger battery at Bolling AFB?

more than the ATC controller was asleep