The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and US Airways (NYSE:LCC) are working together to find out what caused the near-collision of three commuter jets above Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

The US Airways jets, which carried 192 passengers and crew members, almost collided midair at the Reagan National Airport after air traffic controllers “launched two outbound flights directly at another plane coming in to land,” The Washington Post reported Wednesday when breaking the story.

While many details are still surfacing, here is what has been reported about the incident:

• The near-collision happened around 2 p.m. Tuesday, August 1, as several inbound planes were scheduled to head north over the Potomac River to land at Reagan National’s main runway.
• A major wind shift propelled by an incoming storm prompted air traffic controllers in Warrenton, Va. to reroute the inbound planes. That plan change was communicated to the controller tower at Reagan National.
• An unnamed federal official with direct knowledge of the incident, told The Post that the tower agreed to the change, but neglected to properly communicate that information with the necessary people.
• Because of the oversight, an incoming flight was heading directly toward two planes that had recently taken off.
• The controller who made the mistake of clearing the landing, recognized the error about 12 seconds before two planes would have crashed at a combined speed of of 436 mph.
• No one was injured because of the incident.

Operational errors in the air are unfortunately not uncommon. The FAA said on another occasion that 1,887 air traffic errors were recorded in 2010.

The original report about Tuesday’s midair near-miss can be found at Washingtonpost.com.