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Guiding the Sabrejet into a long final at DC’s Reagan National airport was easy. But after her third long flight on an already very full day, Miranda focused on being particularly careful.
The approach path was sandwiched in between Arlington, Virginia, and the P-56A Prohibited Airspace over downtown Washington, DC. All traffic slithered along—flying southeast directly over the Potomac—making it one of the busiest aircraft corridors in the nation.
General Drake had arranged a landing window at Reagan National for her, despite the late notice of her flight, as the airport was just a mile from the Pentagon.
She was on a three-mile final, second in line to land after a United Express Embraer ERJ145 fifty-passenger jet.
The Pentagon was two miles straight ahead. The National Mall of do
