A helicopter carrying President Donald Trump came less than a mile from a passenger jet over D.C. after an air traffic communications failure, a new report alleges.
The close call unfolded after Trump, 80, boarded Marine One at the White House on Tuesday afternoon for a short flight to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where Air Force One was waiting to take him to Los Angeles.
Air traffic controllers did not halt commercial flights at the nearby Ronald Reagan National Airport as required at takeoff, and the 80-year-old president came within 0.8 miles of lateral distance and 700 feet of vertical distance from an airliner, sources tell The New York Times.
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