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.

  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Im just hearing about this too, but that doesnt surprise me at all. Government black ops in mind, you can’t have civilian ATC personnel having classified information on the location of military aircraft nor their capabilities. Of course the military is going to have their own branch responsible for handling sesnitive info.

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      7 days ago

      Nah, I always thought that military shit flew through FAA ATC and they just handed it off to the next. I don’t know what to think now.