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.

The B-52 Bomber that had a near miss with a Skywest passenger plane was not informed of the oncoming aircraft. The Skywest pilot was forced to make an "aggressive maneuver" in order to avoid the Air Force vehicle.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Air traffic controllers at a small North Dakota airport didn’t inform an Air Force bomber’s crew that a commercial airliner was flying in the same area, the military said, shedding light on the nation’s latest air safety scare.

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 Delta regional jet on approach to Minot, North Dakota, made an "aggressive maneuver" to avoid a midair collision with a B-52 bomber.

A passenger who was aboard the SkyWest flight that turned "out of the blue" to avoid a B-52 bomber​ over North Dakota.

A SkyWest Airlines flight approaching Minot International Airport made a sudden evasive maneuver Friday night to avoid a B-52 bomber, prompting a federal investigation.

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 Aviation Administration,