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 incident took place in the same vicinity as the collision between American Airlines and an Army helicopter.

A Delta passenger plane heading for Minneapolis avoided a close call Friday with a U.S. Air Force jet, according to CNN. Delta Flight 2983 was leaving Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport around 3:15 p.