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The PATCO Echo

An air-traffic tower at Reagan National went silent. Blame the Gipper's ghost.

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*Correction, March 31, 2011: An earlier version of this column referred, erroneously, to the Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Association." It is the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, and there is no apostrophe after "Controllers." ( Return to the corrected sentence.)

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Photograph of airport control tower by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.