Pilots have reported repeated close calls similar to fatal collision near DC airport [Video]

By Tara Copp, Michael R. Sisak And Aaron Kessler The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses that were scarily similar to this week’s midair collision that killed 67 people — the type of close calls that led one aviator to complain that Reagan National Airport was “probably the most dangerous” in the nation.

An Associated Press review of a federal database that catalogs such concerns found scores of reports over the last two decades of near-misses and warnings about congested skies over the …