Air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport told the Delta and Republic flights to perform "go-arounds" because of the "priority air transport helicopter"

Image via Shutterstock Remind me not to fly to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. An Army Black Hawk helicopter almost collided with a plane not once but twice last week. The airport suffered two near misses with the Black Hawk.

An Army helicopter flying in the D.C. airspace Thursday forced two commercial passenger jets inbound to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to perform go-around maneuvers — roughly three months after the airport was the site of the nation's worst aviation fatality in more than two decades.