The second term of President Donald Trump could have ended the same way it began, with a fiery mid-air collision over Washington, D.C. between a helicopter and a regional jet. Marine One came within 0.8 miles of colliding with an American Airlines regional jet on Tuesday while flying Trump to Joint Base Andrews. The incident immediately conjured memories of the January 2025 mid-air collision between a U.S. Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet. Also, the Marine One crew tried three times to tell controllers that they were about to take off, but they weren't heard. The U.S. Marine Corps took things a step further in an emailed statement, "There were no 'close calls' with the routine Marine One movement."