Jay Masino wrote:
The latest report on WTOP (news station in DC) was that the aircraft
WAS squawking the correct code, but that there was some sort of
communications problem. I'm glad to see that everyone was so willing
to jump on top of our brother pilots.

Our poor "brother pilots" who can't seem to figure out how to handle a
"communications problem" (aka avoid the friggin white house if their radio
is blown) will be the ones to cause your aircraft to have it's cylinders
filled with sand.