Air Force One was involved in mid-air drama with a passenger jet as it ferried US President Donald Trump to Britain on Tuesday, according to reports.

An air traffic controller was forced to intervene when he noticed the path of a Spirit Airlines jet converging with the president's plane over Long Island, CBS and Bloomberg reported today.

Spirit Flight 1300 was travelling from Fort Lauderdale to Boston when the quick-thinking ATC reportedly noticed their altitudes were similar and paths aligned over New York.

The controller repeated instructions to the pilots of the Spirit Airbus SE A321 to adjust their course, raising his voice when they did not respond promptly, according to recordings from liveatc.net.

The audio shared by @thenewarea51 saw the controller tell the Spirit flight to descend and turn twenty degrees right.

The voice ostensibly belonging to the controller then issued a 'pay attention' and repeated the instruction: 'Turn twenty degrees right now.'

Again, the voice tells the Spirit pilots to turn right 'immediately', relaying 'traffic's off your left wing by ... eight miles'.

'I'm sure you can see who it is,' the voice added. 'Keep an eye out for him — he's white and blue.'

Increasingly irate, it then repeats an instruction and says, 'I've got to talk to you twice every time' before reiterating: 'Pay attention. Get off the iPad.'

A spokesperson for the airline told the Daily Mail today: 'Spirit Airlines flight 1300 (FLL-BOS) followed procedures and Air Traffic Control (ATC) instructions while en route to Boston (BOS) and landed uneventfully at BOS. 

'Safety is always our top priority.'

The Daily Mail contacted Spirit Airlines and the White House for comment.

Preliminary data from Flight Radar suggests the closest the two jets came on converging paths was around 11 miles. 

Donald Trump safely touched down in London late on Tuesday for an historic second state visit.

King Charles and the royal family will roll out the red carpet for the president when he arrives at Windsor Castle with a carriage procession, gun salutes, a military flypast and lavish banquet.

Britain says it will be the largest military ceremonial welcome for a state visit in living memory.

While security for the visit will be tight, with a massive police operation in place in Windsor and 1,600 officers deployed in London to deal with a protest by the 'Stop the Trump Coalition', Trump's arrival prompted a protest in Windsor. 

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is hoping to use the visit to Britain's advantage as his government seeks to use the trip to cement the two nations' 'special relationship', deepen economic ties, secure billions of dollars of investment, discuss tariffs, and press the US president on Ukraine.

Trump's visit has delivered pledges from US tech giants to invest a combined $42 billion to help drive Britain's AI sector. 

Microsoft's 'largest ever commitment to the UK' comprises a $30-billion investment over four years, half of which will be spent on cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. It includes plans to build Britain's largest supercomputer.

Google, meanwhile, plans UK investment of £5 billion ($6.8 billion) over the next two years to power its AI drive, help 'fortify cybersecurity' and create 8,250 jobs annually. 

Bank of America, BlackRock, Citi Group, PayPal and S&P Global are together investing around £1.75 billion to grow their UK operations. 

The UK and US governments also agreed co-operation over nuclear and space technology as part of a 'Tech Prosperity Deal', and British pharmaceutical group GSK pledged investment in the United States.

It is hoped the Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy will halve the time it takes to gain regulatory approval for nuclear projects, making it easier to build new power stations in the UK and US.

A deal between Centrica and US firm X-energy could also create up to 2,500 jobs building up to 12 advanced modular nuclear reactors in Hartlepool.

The companies estimate the Teesside site would generate enough power for up to 1.5 million homes and unlock £12bn for the wider region.