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SkyWest near-miss: B-52 crew 'not told' by Minot tower of incoming MSP flight originally appeared on Bring Me The News. Officials at Minot Air Force Base say that pilots on one of its B-52 bombers was not informed of an incoming Delta service from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, which resulted in a near-miss in North Dakota.
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Daily Express US on MSNAir traffic controllers blamed for near-collision between SkyWest jet and B-52 bomberA commercial airplane narrowly avoided a mid-air collision with a military B-52 bomber after air traffic controllers failed to alert the airliner of bomber's presence in the shared airspace, according to the U.
The civilian pilot told his passengers a B-52 bomber had surprised him in his flight path on approach to Minot, N.D., social media video shows.
A SkyWest flight from Minneapolis narrowly missed a mid-air collision with a B-52 bomber near Minot Airport last week.
What Kadrmas also wound up catching was faint footage of Delta Flight 3788, which is operated by SkyWest, heading into the same airspace as the bomber. “I didn’t think this would be a disaster at the time as the smaller plane was difficult to see from the stands," he said.
A passenger who was aboard the SkyWest flight that turned "out of the blue" to avoid a B-52 bomber over North Dakota.
The pilot of the SkyWest flight apologized to passengers after having to make an "aggressive maneuver" to avoid what he identified as a B-52 bomber near Minot.