A pilot flying a Delta Air Lines regional jet on Friday apologized to his passengers after making a hard turn to avoid colliding with a US Air Force B-52 bomber, audio from the incident shows.

The incident occurred on SkyWest Flight 3788, which was operating as a Delta Connection flight, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Minot, North Dakota, SkyWest said in a statement.

The flight landed safely in Minot “after being cleared for approach by the tower but performed a go-around when another aircraft became visible in their flight path,” the statement read.

  • jonne@infosec.pub
    18·
    7 days ago

    Nah, it’s always the prelude to privatisation. Someone will start up an ATC company and just take over the whole thing.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      101·
      7 days ago

      Doesn’t mean the ATC won’t still collapse, knowing how this shit tends to go they’d probably gut the existing systems so badly that most companies would pull out of the industry at least in the US. Boeing’s fuck ups have driven down air travel relatively recently, it’s entirely possible airports would lose insurance and be shut down by the cities if things got bad enough one or two jets smashing into a suburb would be enough.

      Remember these folks are evil, greedy, and stupid. Not saying they can’t capture objectives but holding them? That’s another question.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        10·
        7 days ago

        Oh of course, privatisation of infrastructure always ends up worse and more expensive. Look at the US railroads.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          7 days ago

          At least with rails the absolute worst that can happen is a chemical spill, with planes and jets it could be as bad as a chemical airburst not even factoring in debris fields and other secondary shit. Frankly speaking I don’t think there is anyways to have a minimum viable ATC with a corporation at least not a publicly traded one since they’d probably sell it to some publicly traded company that’ll be bunk in five years.

          • jonne@infosec.pub
            3·
            7 days ago

            I mean, you can have worse than chemical spills with trains. You can have entire towns blowing up. But yeah, you’ll probably get even worse with ATC.

            • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              7 days ago

              I was thinking about that one derailing that dumped chlorine and more or less sterilized an entire valley back in the 80s(?). When I say chemical spill I meant worst case chemical spill.