Experts reassure air safety after DC mid-air collision [Video]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Following Wednesday night’s fatal mid-air collision at Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C., Sacramento aviation experts are reminding travelers how incredibly rare such crashes are.

“In such advanced airspace technology, something like this is one-in-100 million chances to happen,” said Augustine Joseph, a pilot of nearly 40 years, with some 16,000 hours of flight time between aircraft ranging from helicopters to military and passenger jets.

He is the CEO of several aviation businesses, including Advanced International Aviation Academy, where young students from around the world learn how to fly — nearly 200 pilots trained every year, he said.

“Safety is absolutely the number one thing in our list of priorities,” Joseph said at Sacramento Executive Airport, where he operates the academy and has another one of his businesses — JetEXE Aviation.

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