A commercial plane and US Air Force jet nearly collided near Reagan National Airport (DCA) on Friday afternoon, just two months after a midair collision killed 67 people over the Potomac River.
Delta Flight 2983 was taking off from DCA around 3:15 pm, carrying 136 passengers headed to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, when its onboard warning system alerted the crew to another aircraft nearby, CNN reported. The Air Force T-38, a high-speed training jet, was flying at more than 350 mph and just 800 feet above the ground when it passed near the Delta plane, according to tracking data from FlightRadar24.
