An American Airlines flight trying to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Tuesday had to do a go-around maneuver and abort its first landing to avoid a collision.

Later on Tuesday, Southwest Airlines Flight 2504 from Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago Midway International Airport performed a similar go-around maneuver after a business jet entered the runway without permission, the Federal Aviation Administration said on its website.

The Reagan National incident came at around 8:20 a.m., with American Flight 2246 told to do the maneuver, which involves stopping the plane’s approach, regaining altitude and circling back to make another approach and landing, by air traffic control, the FAA said.

Another preceding plane was departing and would have been too close for the American Airlines flight, which was arriving from Boston’s Logan International Airport, to land safely.

Flight 2246 got as low as 500 feet before performing the go-around maneuver, according to FlightAware. It ended up landing by 8:31 a.m. and arriving at its gate by 8:38 a.m.

The flight “landed safely and normally,” American Airlines told The Associated Press, adding that “a go-around is not an abnormal flight maneuver and can occur nearly every day in the National Airspace System.”

The incident comes a month after the Jan. 29 collision above the Potomac River between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional flight killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft. The plane was on its way to land at Reagan National.

In Chicago, the Southwest jet landed without further incident, the airline told AP. The plane reached the tarmac about 20 minutes late at 9:02 a.m., according to FlightAware.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.