thomas

I ran a search for airborne conflicts and near mid-air collisions at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) for the last five years in NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), and found six of them (~1.5 per year if we exclude the 2020–2021 period of virtually no traffic due to COVID–19). 🧵

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#1 is ACN 1618051 in Feb 2019. A Bombardier CRJ200 did a go-around due to a wind gust and found itself climbing too close to a departing Embraer ERJ170. A resolution advisory was issued by the TCAS and an evasive maneuver had to be performed.

this thing is so sad, and the news is just about who is blaming who

zero survivors