WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses that were scarily similar to this week’s midair collision that killed 67 people — the type of close calls that led one aviator to complain that Reagan National Airport was “probably the most dangerous” in the nation.
An Associated Press review of a federal database that catalogs such concerns found scores of reports over the last two decades of near-misses and warnings about congested skies over the nation’s capital, with pilots repeatedly complaining about military helicopters getting too close to passenger jets.
Last May, one of those helicopters passed just 300 feet (91 meters)
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