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.

WASHINGTON — As the House prepares to vote on a bill that will set national defense policy for the next year, the families of those killed in the DCA mid-air collision, and the people in charge of investigating it, are calling out the short section on helicopter safety.

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