God forbid waking up and looking in a mirror one day and say, ‘Wow, I was warned. I was warned and I shouldn’t have done this,’” Kaine said in 2024.

Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine raised the red flag on increased air traffic around Reagan National Airport more than a year before Wednesday evening’s crash of an American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter.

On May 29, 2024, an American Airlines Airbus A319, in the early stages of take-off, was forced to brake heavily to avoid a collision at Washington National. The flight, with around 100 passengers and crew onboard, was headed for Boston Logan International (BOS) and had been cleared for take-off.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) doubled down during an interview on his concerns about the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport space being overcrowded following the fatal collision between a military helicopter and an airline plane that killed 67 people.