The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said an American Airlines (AA) flight had to perform a go-round at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on Tuesday morning after a close call with another aircraft.

The incident happened less than two hours before a similar event at Chicago's Midway Airport amid a spate of aviation disasters in North America.

An American Airlines jet avoided a collision with another plane while preparing to land at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning.

The incident involving American Airlines flight 2246 from Boston happened around 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, nearly two hours before a Southwest Airlines flight in Chicago had to perform the same maneuver to avoid colliding with a private jet.