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SkyWest flight dodges B-52 bomber in mid-air scare over North Dakota

An Embraer E175LR passenger jet operating under SkyWest almost collided with a B-52 bomber doing a flyover at North Dakota State Fair in Minot on July 18. The passenger jet's pilot apologized for ...
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Why a Delta Jet’s Near-Miss With a B-52 Exposes Gaps in U.S. Airspace Safety

For those of you on the right-hand side, you probably saw the airplane kind of sort of coming at us. Nobody told us about it, ...
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Air traffic controllers fail to warn B-52 bomber about nearby airliner

Air traffic controllers at a small North Dakota airport didn't inform an Air Force bomber's crew that a commercial airliner ...
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USAF Notes FAA Approval Of B-52 Flyover, After SkyWest Event

A planned B-52 bomber flyover that caused a SkyWest Airlines regional jet to perform a go-around near Minot, North Dakota, ...

B-52 bomber wasn’t warned about approaching Delta plane before shocking near-miss in North Dakota: Air Force

Air traffic controllers in North Dakota failed to warn a US Air Force B-52 bomber about an approaching passenger jet, which ...

A private company runs the control tower where a B-52 got too close to a passenger jet. It’s more common than you might think

The Minot, North Dakota control tower where a Delta Air Lines regional jet had to perform an “aggressive maneuver,” to avoid colliding with an Air Force B-52 bomber, isn’t staffed by the Federal ...
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An Air Force B-52 Nearly Collides with a Civilian Airliner

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