Planes nearly collide on runway at Reagan National Airport outside DC, stopping just 400 feet apart
Two packed airplanes nearly collided on a Virginia runway Thursday morning, each pumping their brakes just several hundred feet from the other. The scary close call happened around 7:40 a.m. when an air traffic controller gave the okay for a Florida-bound Southwest Airlines plane to cross onto runway 4 at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport just outside Washington DC,