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WASHINGTON — A plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama this week came even closer to a big military cargo jet than previously reported, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
The distance between the two planes closed to 2.94 miles before air-traffic controllers at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington directed the first lady’s plane to abort a landing, the board said in a statement.
The Federal Aviation Administration had said there was more than 3 miles between the planes, and had ordered controllers’ supervisors to oversee flights carrying the first lady and the vice president.
