The U.S. government says the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilot played a role in a fatal collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk near the nation’s capital.

A JetBlue plane almost collided with an Air Force tanker near Curacao on Friday, raising questions about safety around military flights.

A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path.

They were really close,” one of the pilots told controllers of the encounter at approximately 26,000 feet. “We were climbing right into him.”

The U.S. Senate passed the Motorcraft Operations Transparency and Oversight Reform (ROTOR) Act in aftermath of the 2025 midair collision between an American Airlines Flight and an Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people near Ronald Reagan National Airport.

A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path