Agencies regulating capital airspace need to coordinate efforts
Submitted on July 22, 2005 - 12:00am.
Adrien M. Martin - Summer 2005
WASHINGTON – Nearly three months after a single-engine airplane breached restricted airspace and forced 35,000 thousand people to evacuate the Capitol and congressional office buildings, members of Congress pressed security officials on how such threats should be handled in the future.
The Government Accountability Office reported Thursday to members of the House Committee on Government Reform that the ambiguity of the current procedures for responding to airspace violations delays responses, as agencies scramble to figure out who is in charge.
“The only people that seem to know what to do are the people in the jets. They seem to get up there pretty quick,” said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.
The Government Accountability Office reported Thursday to members of the House Committee on Government Reform that the ambiguity of the current procedures for responding to airspace violations delays responses, as agencies scramble to figure out who is in charge.
“The only people that seem to know what to do are the people in the jets. They seem to get up there pretty quick,” said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.
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