Another close call near Washington National airport

[spooky3]

Breaking: A Delta jet just came close to colliding with a US military jet over Washington, DC, causing alarms to go off.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2025-03-29T00:14:48.766Z

[malaise]

1. Holy Shit

This is madness

That would have been a major disaster
The Airbus A319 typically seats between 124 and 156 passengers

[Meowmee]

2. Horrific- wtf is going on?

So glad I don’t fly anymore. One less thing I have to worry about.

[Bo Zarts]

3. Speed limit below 10,000 feet is 250 knots ..

There is absolutely no reason in the world a T-38 trainer should be flying low level near DCA under any circumstance, and to be doing 350 knots is a dangerous and reckless operation.

Heads should roll.

[Jamesm9164]

4. You are 100% correct!

[WarGamer]

5. Annually there are over 1000 Aviation accidents and incidents in the USA.

That's three a day...

The media is hyping these incidents for God knows what reason...

[malaise]

6. Hmmmmmmmmm! Midair collision kills 67 people in the deadliest US air disaster in almost a quarter century

That is why, and this near miss was in the same air space.
https://apnews.com/article/ronald-reagan-national-airport-crash-62adba7fb1f546b4cf1716e42b86482b

[WarGamer]

7. For the last 5 years... there have been 300-400 aviation fatalities per year...

That 67 fatality collision was terrible...

But that makes 108 fatalities as of now... 3 months into the year.

That means other than the National Airport collision... around 14 fatalities per month.

If the year continues to play out like this... I'd expect around 108+ 130-ish for a total of approx 240 fatalities in 2025...

But this is just DATA... maybe emotions are more accurate.