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In the days since an American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk helicopter

over the Potomac River, killing dozens, there's this one fact I can't stop thinking

about. It's been 15 years since a crash like this happened.

Fifteen years ago, the iPhone was essentially brand new.

Barack Obama had just been elected president.

It seems like a lifetime ago.

And that means a couple of things.

First, we haven't responded as a country to a big random accident like this one in a while.

But it also means some experts had been waiting for this moment, dreading it.

A year and a half ago, Slate's Dan Cois wrote an article titled,

Everyone seems to agree a major plane crash is coming.

We're overdue, one pilot told him.

You must have been thinking about that article as soon as you heard that this crash had taken place.

I was thinking about all the pilots that I talked to for that article.

Dan lives just a few miles away from Reagan National Airport.

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