A U.S. passenger flight preparing to leave the nation's capital and an incoming military jet received instructions to divert and prevent a possible collision, officials said.

A close call between a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and a US Air Force T-38 jet, often used by the military for training, sounded alarms in the cockpit of the passenger plane Friday.

The four modified 757s with the callsign Air Force Two carry the U.S. Vice President, JD Vance. No replacement for these aircraft is currently planned, and according to an article from 2021, funding for the replacement project was to be removed from the USAF's budget request in 2022.

A Delta flight preparing to leave Washington, D.C. and an incoming military jet avoided a possible collision after reportedly coming within 500 feet of each other.

A Delta plane carrying 131 passengers nearly collided with an Air Force jet in a 'loss of separation' Friday leading up to a flyover at Arlington National Cemetery.

A Delta passenger plane and an Air Force jet flew narrowly close to one another outside Washington, D.C., on Friday, prompting a collision warning and "corrective instructions" from air traffic controllers.

A Delta flight nearly collided with an Air Force jet over Washington, D.C., setting off warning alarms in the passenger plane’s cockpit on Friday, according to CNN. Delta flight 2983, carrying 131 passengers,

A Delta airlines plane carrying 136 passengers nearly collided with a military jet Friday afternoon outside the same D.C. airport where a mid-air collision killed 67 people in January.

A U.S. passenger flight preparing to leave the nation's capital and an incoming military jet received instructions to divert and prevent a possible collision, officials said.