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A control tower supervisor at Reagan National Airport has been suspended while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates why he wasn’t available to aid two planes that landed at the airport earlier early Wednesday.

FAA administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement that the controller has been suspended from his operational duties. Babbitt said he was “personally outraged” that the supervisor — the lone controller on duty in the airport tower at the time — failed to meet his duties.

An aviation official who spoke on condition of anonymity because an investigation is underway said the supervisor fell asleep, the Associated Press reported.

The two D.C. airliners, carrying a total of 165 passengers and crew members, landed on their own shortly after midnight after attempting to contact the control tower and receiving no response.

Tower at Reagan National goes silent as planes attempt to land