The captain of a regional flight carrying 80 people said he was forced to make a sharp turn as a B-52 approached rapidly.
The pilot of a US regional flight had to make “an aggressive maneuver” to avoid a mid-air collision with a B-52 bomber in North Dakota on Friday, according to a recording of an announcement to passengers published on social media.
A Delta Airlines flight operated by SkyWest was on final approach to Minot, North Dakota, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, when a B-52 Stratofortress from a nearby Air Force Base appeared without warning.
“Sorry about the aggressive maneuver,” the captain told passengers after the landing on Friday in a video posted on Instagram.
The pilot said he saw a plane “coming on a convergent course” too fast on his right side, while the Minot airport control tower was giving instructions visually without radar.
“You probably saw the airplane sort of coming at us from the right,” he explained. Considering its speed it was a military aircraft, he added.
“I felt it was the safest thing to do to turn behind it,” the pilot told the passengers.
The captain noted that the B-52’s home base had radar, expressing confusion over why the crew was not given advance warning.
Passenger Monica Green, who recorded the pilot’s post-landing remarks, told the New York Times that the plane banked so sharply that her window view shifted from the sky to the ground. All 76 passengers and four crew members landed safely, SkyWest confirmed.
The US Air Force acknowledged that a B-52 from Minot base conducted an approved flyover for the North Dakota state fair Friday evening. The base stated “the airport did not advise of the inbound commercial aircraft,” according to ABC News.
Both SkyWest, and the Federal Aviation Administration said in their statements that they were investigating what happened.
Friday’s near collision between a military and civilian aircraft follows a deadly incident in January when a military Black Hawk helicopter collided with American Airlines Flight 5342 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. All 64 people aboard the plane and three on the helicopter were killed.
Image credit: Steve Harvey
Oooooooh-weeeeee!
This could be Air Traffic Control being A.I. run, OR-
The Air Traffice Controllers and USAF Pilots could be experiencing brain fog from the illegal and untested Covid vaccines!!
The U.S. Armed Forces, like the MoD in the U.K., have been attacked with the bio-weapon, and are now defunct.
This is why the USAF is now begging Pilots, Flight Engineers, and Air Traffic Controllers to return to service, despite being thrown-out for refusing the deadly Covid vaccine, which was their human and military right to do so!
Every Commander who forced this illegal war crime on their Squadron and Wing members should be re-called, Court martialled (retired military w/ white ID cards and retirement pensions can be re-called for Court Martial proceedings if the commit a felony while retired…so they are not truly ‘retired’…!)
Expect more of this, with A.I. and hacking software taking-over flight computers and control of the aircraft…
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/256423772507987872/
Skip to :45 on the below…& this was filmed in 1966. Two years later I went to WOFT for Army Helicopter Training…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9nunBVBphQ
Yes, we are all pawns in the great game.
The NRA should require all passenger planes to be fully armed so they can shoot these silly B-52 bombers down