Passenger Jet Forced Into 'Aggressive Maneuver' to Avoid B-52

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

A Delta regional flight was forced to make an "aggressive maneuver" to avoid a midair collision with a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber in North Dakota, according to its pilot.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 07:31 AM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

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.

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-- CNN (@cnn.com) Jul 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Comments

Was Pickled Pete at the controls?

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-21 12:28 PM

Pickled Pete trying to create a tragedy to distract from Trump being a PEDO?

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-21 12:32 PM

The B-52 was flying with no transponder.

The Air Force did not inform the local airport about the flyover, which is important because the local airport does not have radar.

SkyWest saved the day here. From USAF's stupidity.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-21 02:00 PM

The B-52 was flying with no transponder.

Warplanes almost never use transponders. I see a lot of air tankers and military transports with transponders, but never bombers or fighters (other than Talons used for training).

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-21 04:18 PM

At least you can't blame it on transgenders.

#5 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-07-21 04:26 PM

"Warplanes almost never use transponders."

Well they're ------- ------- then.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-21 05:38 PM

Has Cankles McPedo blamed this on DEI yet?

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-21 05:48 PM

Biden's fault. Obama too. Arrest them both...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-22 08:17 AM

^ exactly. If the incompetents in the WH even mention this, they will somehow claim it was Biden who caused this near-disaster.

#9 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-07-22 09:20 AM

The B-52 moved on the Delta plane like a bitch.

~ President Plane Crash ~

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-22 09:47 AM

Passenger Jet Forced Into 'Aggressive Maneuver' to Avoid B-52

Trying to avoid the love shack!

#11 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-22 10:59 AM

Warplanes almost never use transponders. I see a lot of air tankers and military transports with transponders, but never bombers or fighters (other than Talons used for training).

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-21 04:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

The B-52 has transponders that work with TCAS, but no TCAS display. It has Mode C transponders.

FAA requires all large commercial aircraft to have a full TCAS system installed.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-07-22 11:31 AM

"Warplanes almost never use transponders."

Warplanes always use transponders when conducting routine flights. Normally only the flight lead will squawk an IFF code, the wingmen will remain in standby. What the B-52 does not have, or didn't have the last time I flew one, was an RVSM-compliant transponder system.

And there is a radar there somewhere. It's controlled by RAPCON, which manages the approach and departure frequencies. I spent hundreds of hours as the Supervisor of flying in the MAFB tower, and we had a radar feed.

#13 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-07-23 02:05 AM

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