American Airlines CRJ-700 collides with helicopter near Reagan National

So NVGs with all the street, building, runway, air traffic lights around? damn.

Question, having never used NVGs- but seems plausible, depth perception/spatial awareness issues?

Definitely depth perception issues as well as spatial awareness limitations. It gets better the more you fly and train, but it's a perishable skill. Most of the time we wouldn't use them over the cities just because it would wash out everything, so we'd fly VFR and transition to NVGs as we got out of the city.