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A close call between a Delta Air Ligne Airbus A319 take off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and an American Air Force T-38 jet, often used by the army for training, resounded in the cockpit of the passenger aircraft on Friday.
Delta 2983 left Reagan airport around 3:15 p.m. and headed for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for a regularly scheduled flight.
Delta did not identify the other jets involved, but an examination of Flightradar24 monitoring data shows an Air Force T-38 plane in front of the Delta plane and DCA airport covering more than 350 miles per hour at 800 feet. The military jet took off and landed at Langley Air Force Base, in Hampton, Virginia.
CNN has asked for comments to the Air Force.
The Delta plane was authorized for takeoff around 3:15 p.m., while four American Air Force T-38 greenhouses entered the Arlington National Cemetery for an overview, the FAA said in a statement.
The Delta plane received an on -board alert that another plane was nearby and the air controllers issued corrective instructions to both planes, FAA reported.
The FAA will investigate the incident.
The tight call occurred just south of DCA airport, near the place where a regional jet of American Airlines and a Black Hawk Army Black helicopter collided, killing 67 people on January 29.
During a congress hearing on Thursday, senators demanded to know why close calls between military helicopters and passenger planes are not controlled for so long at the DCA.
The NTSB said that the investigators have revealed more than 15,000 events for close proximity events between commercial aircraft and helicopters between 2021 and 2024 where the planes were in a seab and 85 cases where two planes were separated by 1,500 feet vertically and 200 feet laterally.
The FAA has since closed a helicopter route near the airport and swore military aircraft required on DCA on Thursday to fly with specific collision avoidance equipment.
But that was not enough to prevent today’s call for call while the Delta plane takes off.
“During this departure … was there a real plane about 500 feet below us when we left DCA,” asked the Delta pilot to air controllers on audio captured by the Liveatc.net website.
“Delta 2983, affirmative,” replies the starting controller.
The pilot also noted that they had received a warning in the cockpit, called “resolution notice” of the traffic alert system and avoidance of the collisions of the plane. The system tells a pilot what to do to avoid a collision.
“Nothing is more important than the security of our customers and our people,” said Morgan Durrant, spokesperson for Delta Air Lines. “This is why the driving crew followed the procedures to maneuver the plane as indicated.”
Two pilots, three on -board agents and 131 passengers were aboard the Delta plane.