Saturday, March 29, 2025

Flight has close call with AF aircraft near Reagan airport

A Delta Air Lines flight had a reported close call with a U.S. Air Force jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, close call that comes months after a deadly crash nearby.

Posted by LampLighter at 06:38 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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... The incident Friday occurred just south of the airport, near the location that an American Airlines jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River two months ago. All 67 aboard both aircraft died in what was the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster since 2001.

New restrictions were put in place for helicopters and other military aircraft around the airport in the weeks after the crash.

At 2:55 p.m. on Friday, Delta's Airbus A319 was departing Reagan when it came close to an Air Force T-38 Talon jet, which are used for pilot training, CNN reported. ...

Alarms went off in the cockpit of the Airbus and the Collision Avoidance System kicked in. On board were three flight crew members, and 131 passengers on board. No injuries were reported.

"Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people," Delta said in a statement. "That's why the flight crew followed procedures to maneuver the aircraft as instructed."

The Air Force has not commented on the incident. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-29 06:40 PM

T-38 Talon jet, which are used for pilot training

Still? Wow. I thought they had retired those.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-29 06:52 PM

President Plane Crash narrowly avoids another disaster.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-29 07:45 PM


More from the article...

...After Friday's near miss, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic, wrote on X on Saturday: "Unbelievably dangerous and thank God people are safe. My first call to Department of Defense today: why are your planes flying 500 feet below passenger jets full of Minnesotans headed from DCA to my state."

The website LiveATC.net captured communications from the cockpit.

"On that departure ... was there an actual aircraft about 500 ft below us as we came off of DCA," the Delta pilot asked air traffic controllers.

"Delta 2983, affirmative," the departure controller responded. ...

[emphasis mine]


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-29 10:56 PM

#3... Now tie this back to any of the changes Trump made.

#5 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-03-30 12:38 PM

"Now tie this back to any of the changes Trump made."

How about if you show us how cutting a double-digit percentage of the workforce improves output?

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-03-30 12:41 PM

Gosh, I sure hope a 787 doesn't crash into the White House.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-30 02:53 PM

#6 that's great... but I asked to show how the cuts directly lead to this situation.

You're claiming a causation, provide the receipt.

Your question in and of itself is an assertion that cuts lead to this exact scenario. Show it. If it's true it should be easy.

#8 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-03-31 01:11 PM

I asked to show how the cuts directly lead to this situation.

Funny how trumpers never ask how DEI hires led to this situation.

I'm sure the mass layoffs had nothing to do with it.

It's just a coincidence.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 01:20 PM

"You're claiming a causation, provide the receipt."

Oh so Dems have to provide receipts but maga maroons do not?

Where are the "receipts" proving the reason that all these folks needed to be fired in the first place? There are NO receipts and most are being rehired. But do they immediately get to return to the job? Oh no. They have to sit at home on "admin leave" until the appeals process works its way through the courts. And they could even be fired again. Costing the American taxpayer even more money.

Let's see THOSE RECEIPTS.

Meanwhile GFY and your sudden need for "receipts".

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-31 01:46 PM

More is expected from Democrats than from republicans.

It's always been the case.

Republicans vote for the high school drop out who would be fun to drink a beer with.

Democrats need politicians who represent the wants of every American and who are as pure as the freshly fallen snow.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 01:51 PM

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