Internal government reports and public databases highlight several instances in which planes narrowly escaped collisions with each other or helicopters.

Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses over the years that were scarily similar to this week's midair collision that killed 67 people.

The US Federal Aviation Administration will restrict helicopter traffic around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after a deadly crash earlier this week.

In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan National Airport, at least two other pilots reported near-misses with helicopters while landing at the airport,

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is indefinitely restricting helicopter flights near Washington Reagan National Airport after a deadly collision between an American Airlines regional jet and Army Black Hawk killed 67 people.