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Delta regional jet pilot apologizes to passengers for ‘aggressive maneuver’ to avoid a B-52 bomber

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Delta regional jet pilot apologizes to passengers for ‘aggressive maneuver’ to avoid a B-52 bomber | CNN

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.

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Delta regional jet pilot apologizes to passengers for ‘aggressive maneuver’ to avoid a B-52 bomber

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Are we having air traffic control fall out? Having a close call and then someone in your flight path again isn't great.
- I mean, the ATC pipeline has already had issues for some decades when it comes to adding new recruits, and then DOGE came in and decided to offer buyouts and fire random employees on top of that. It's only a matter of time before you get more accidents like the one in DC.
  
  Also you will start seeing folks leave from burnout and overwork sooner or later. Because that's the corpo way, fucked over your workforce and need to desperately high more people? Nope just work the current ones to the bone until the whole situation inevitably spirals into an irreparable mess.
  The rail companies are gonna be making bank on parcel and letter delivery when the planes get permanently grounded because nobody wants to operate a business with no ATC. Also wonder how long till we start seeing state level run ATC?
  
  It's cool bruh we'll just have xAI run the show using their Nazi bot who will prioritize flights based on how Jewish their passengers' last names sound
The tower involved was not a Federal Aviation Administration tower
Pardon? Who is operating a tower in North Dakota apart from the FAA? What is going on here? Why is there a tower in our United States that the FAA does not control?
“Long story short, it was not fun, I do apologize for it and thank you for understanding,”
lol, understatement
- If I had to venture a guess I'd say it was probably the tower at nearby Minot AFB. Perhaps the commercial flight's approach took them over the bases' airspace or something.
  
  I'm having trouble coming to grips with us having multiple air controllers. I thought everything was FAA and the military had to coordinate with them.
  Good thing I don't fly an airplane, I suppose.
- My guess is the Air Force. Iirc, the Army and Navy also operate their own ATC. I didn't know they did approach control for civilian aircraft, but that seems to be the case.
  
  WTF? I thought all air traffic was FAA, guess I was wrong.
Just saw a YouTube vid on this with the pilot apologising and the comments were blaming "DEI". i felt so tempted to ask them what part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion they have a problem with
- YouTube comments are full of the most braindead people on Earth
  
  There's a reason "don't read the comments" is a cliche
Kudos to the pilot for handling the situation admirably
Should it be the other way around?
- In aircraft and boats, the more maneuverable craft has the responsibility to evade. Since this flight was going to a small airport in North Dakota, I'm guessing it's a small commuter plane that's much smaller than a B-52.
  
  Pilot here: while that is generally true, for aviation the rule is that aircraft types that are in the same category have to give way to landing aircraft. Ie, a hot air balloon doesn't need to give way to a landing fixed wing but a fixed wing and fixed wing do need to give way to the landing aircraft.
  The Delta pilot should be commended and the B52 should have been more aware of their situation.
  In addition, ATC clearance generally means you have right of way especially on a landing approach.
HEGSETH!
A similar incident happened earlier this year: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/delta-military-jet-close-call-dca/index.html
This isn’t news.
- A B52 flying in non training airspace is News. That same B52 causing issues with civilian an aircraft is News.
  Tell me how either of this let along both are not news.
  
  This is national news in the US, yet this is the general "News" community. Maybe that's what they are referring to.
- ... then what it's?
  
  I just had a stroke trying to read that.
- Yeah it was a go around. Not newsworthy at all. It's actually a correct and a fairly routine response. The fact that it was a military plane is the only reason it was given any traction. And that's not a unique occurrence either!
  Funny how the most down voted person is the only correct one here.
  Hell I've made military jets perform a go around because of me being too slow on approach. God forbid that hits the national news! "Local 172 pilot wastes taxpayer funds by flying anemic plane"
  
  I’m glad someone else realizes this. This happens on a daily occurrence folks. It really isn’t news.

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