Delta Airlines Jet Makes 'Aggressive' Detour To Avoid Mid-Air Collision With B-52 Bomber In US
The pilot of the Delta Airlines jet blamed unclear air traffic control instructions for the close call and apologised to passengers for the sudden movement of the plane.
A Delta Air Lines regional jet narrowly avoided a tragic mishap recently as it was forced to make an 'aggressive manoeuvre" to avoid a mid-air collision with a B-52 bomber in North Dakota last week, according to various media reports.
The incident took place on July 18 and is being investigated by SkyWest, which operated the flight. In a viral TikTok video that was uploaded on Saturday, the Delta pilot told passengers that he was forced to make a sudden detour to avoid colliding with a military plane flying nearby.
The plane had departed from Minneapolis and was on approach to Minot, North Dakota, home to an Air Force base with B-52 bombers, according to a report by ABC News. The pilot said unclear air traffic control instructions led to the close call.
'For those of you on the right-hand side, you probably saw the airplane kind of coming at us. Nobody told us about it, and so we continued. There's no radar here, so the tower does everything visually," the pilot told passengers in the video. He said he was directed to 'report about six miles from the airport" and was instructed to make a specific turn, according to the PEOPLE magazine.
However, when he saw the approaching military aircraft, he told air traffic control, 'There's an airplane over there" and was told to turn in the opposite direction. 'By the time we went back to clearance with nowhere, I saw the airplane that was kind of coming on a converging course with us."
The pilot apologised for the sudden movement of the aircraft, saying, 'So sorry about the aggressive manoeuvre."
'It caught me by surprise. This is not normal at all," he continued. 'I don't know why they didn't give us a heads-up, because the airport base does have radar." Meanwhile, passengers on the plane also witnessed the approaching B-52 bomber on one side of the aircraft.
Despite the close call, passengers were reportedly calm. 'I felt like I was gaslighting myself, like maybe I was being crazy, because no one else was reacting," said Monica Green, one of the passengers.
'The way he (pilot) said it, it almost sounded like he was insinuating that landing safely might not be an option for a moment. We all just kind of looked at each other and stayed quiet."
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