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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Which aircraft was out of its designated space?
jul 22, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
Why is it always military aircrafts that seem to be getting in the way of passenger jets??
jul 21, 2025, 1:47 am • 59 3 • view
Sounds more like we've got middle eastern terrorists working in the airline industry...... DEI hires, perhaps?
jul 21, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump/Hegseth
jul 21, 2025, 1:49 am • 34 2 • view
Yeah, it was a rhetorical question.
jul 21, 2025, 2:03 am • 21 0 • view
😲
jul 21, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks Kegsbreath!! Call your f*cking sponsor, or get one.
jul 21, 2025, 11:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Par for he course since you have imbeciles running the gov, dismantling our federal agencies, the hand of Trump, Muskrat, and Doge are behind all these mishaps, by indiscriminately firing experienced employees.
jul 22, 2025, 1:18 am • 9 0 • view
So not only is Mr. Transportation/Nasa-RoadRules Challenge not doing his job. Mr. Tattooed Fox News host doesn't know to keep his military out of harms way.
jul 22, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
If I was riding on that plane, no pilot apology would be necessary. Strictly hypothetical, because I never fly union busting Delta Air Lines.
jul 21, 2025, 10:11 pm • 4 0 • view
John Madden was right ..”Holy Moley what was that? ..Blue Angles..that close?!!! They were eye level!!! Crowd thought that was great.. where are they now?!! That’s as close as I’ve been to an airplane in 18 years”..”you don’t fly do you..” 49rs ,Rams ,16yrs ago. Last sane broadcaster.
jul 22, 2025, 2:43 am • 0 0 • view
I’d bet almost certainly it was the Delta pilots fault
jul 21, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
It wasnt
jul 21, 2025, 2:02 am • 6 0 • view
Well, we don’t know, almost certainly the regional jet pilot. This article doesn’t prove a thing
jul 21, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
One plane was flying with clearance and vectors. One wasn’t.
jul 21, 2025, 2:05 am • 7 0 • view
I mean, that’s what the pilot of the regional jet says…let’s get the radio calls and radar data
jul 21, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Keep digging yourself in deeper, FG.
jul 21, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
35 years in aviation and meteorology, multiple aircraft investigation boards, might know something some others don’t
jul 21, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
Or maybe it could have something to do with air traffic control being massively understaffed thanks to Trump?
jul 21, 2025, 7:22 am • 1 0 • view
Or maybe instead of projecting we wait until the investigation tells us what happened?
jul 21, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, you’re the one who started jumping to conclusions.
jul 21, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm going to tell you what I would have I would have crapped myself if I would have seen that bomber come at me in my regular airliner. Come on they knew they were coming at you .That's some scarry s... glad all are okay...
jul 22, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view
WoW. Gotta give the right away to those Big BUFFs 😎😉😁
jul 21, 2025, 6:13 am • 0 0 • view
It's just a matter of time.
jul 21, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
why are these near misses happening so frequently? who the hell is in charge of these planes? not doing a good job! we the people deserve qualified professionals overseeing our skies!
jul 21, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed! It sounds like we've got middle eastern terrorists working in the airline industry...... DEI hires, perhaps?
jul 21, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump Cuts
jul 21, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
Nah, DEI hires finally coming to light.
jul 21, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like we've got middle eastern terrorists working in the airline industry......
jul 21, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
😱🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
jul 22, 2025, 1:01 am • 0 0 • view
Basically, the only one safe to fly is cankles?
jul 21, 2025, 10:00 pm • 7 0 • view
The Trump regime has transformed the skies into a russian roulette. 😖
jul 21, 2025, 11:03 pm • 17 0 • view
Can't imagine why people are avoiding travel to the US.
jul 21, 2025, 10:09 pm • 22 0 • view
Man! You could tell that pilot was really pissed!
jul 22, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
Competence matters. Trump administration is a clown show. People don’t realize how great they had it before Don the Con
jul 21, 2025, 10:54 pm • 10 0 • view
Possibly ATC’s fault
jul 21, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
Typical America…a military flyover at a fucking State Fair because…well, America😡
jul 21, 2025, 9:38 pm • 12 0 • view
Contractor running air traffic control - great 🙄... One drawback of contracting basic government services like air traffic control is that the more parties involved, the less accountability at times like this.
jul 22, 2025, 12:22 am • 2 0 • view
That high-speed rail network is sounding awfully good right about now…
jul 21, 2025, 11:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Well at least he apologized… always better to apologize for somebody else’s wrongdoing.
jul 21, 2025, 1:48 am • 2 1 • view
RESPECT!!!
jul 21, 2025, 11:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Grace under pressure! Bravo!
jul 21, 2025, 3:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Wow, what going with commercial aviation and the military since this administration?
jul 21, 2025, 1:52 am • 2 2 • view
DEI hires finally coming to light?
jul 21, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Duffy- Unqualified sycophant can't lead.
jul 21, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
This is nuts
jul 21, 2025, 2:01 am • 2 0 • view
1. How long before pilot gets fired for daring to call the incident what it was vs. waiting for Hegseth to crawl out of a bottle to tell him via unsecured Signal chat what the official spin was supposed to be? 2. Will President Cankles and his cabal blame Biden, Obama, or marauding immigrants?
jul 21, 2025, 11:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump doesn’t care if he kills people. He just wants to make cuts to civil service to give his billionaire buddies a tax cut.
jul 21, 2025, 10:49 pm • 17 0 • view
Quick thinking saved everyone’s life.
jul 21, 2025, 2:08 am • 9 0 • view
Maybe it's time for a pilots strike before someone else gets killed.
jul 21, 2025, 10:54 pm • 12 0 • view
Just so I am clear -- a Delta pilot apologized to passengers for *checks notes* making a hard turn *checks notes* to avoid a B-52 bomber?
jul 21, 2025, 4:49 pm • 25 2 • view
Guy has class. Saves their lives, then apologizes for taking the action needed to do so.
jul 21, 2025, 11:07 pm • 7 0 • view
Right? What am I missing? Please DO avoid the B52, eh?
jul 22, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
Lolz. Was merely pointing out that the same information is repeated 3 times in the post.
jul 22, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Who’s more incompetent, Pete Hegseth or Sean Duffy?
jul 21, 2025, 2:37 pm • 16 0 • view
Which water is wetter? The Atlantic or Pacific?
jul 21, 2025, 2:38 pm • 22 0 • view
I love this analogy. 🙌🏼💦
jul 21, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 0 • view
US Air Force is being run like Trump Steaks
jul 21, 2025, 3:00 am • 2 0 • view
Apologize???? I expect they were pretty happy he was such a good pilot❤️
jul 23, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
"Your next airplane flight is going to be less safe because of this. That's not political." - FAA employee Listen to insiders who know. psstpsst.substack.com/p/every-day-...
jul 21, 2025, 11:20 am • 13 0 • view
Sounds like we've got middle eastern terrorists working in the airline industry...... DEI hires, perhaps?
jul 21, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
We know.
jul 21, 2025, 11:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Uh, where's ATC? Oh yeah...
jul 22, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
I’m sure the Delta pilot was a DEI hire, right?!
jul 21, 2025, 2:09 am • 9 0 • view
More like the USAF pilot was likely a newb rushed through the system, because Pete sacked all the experience pilots for having DEI skin colour.
jul 21, 2025, 3:11 am • 14 1 • view
Don’t apologize for being a hero #deltapilot
jul 21, 2025, 2:48 am • 2 0 • view
It was not a “Delta Air Lines” jet. It was a Sky West jet. Regional airlines are not new. Can news outlets ever report on air lines accurately? It only takes a little bit of research.
jul 21, 2025, 11:53 pm • 3 0 • view
I haven't seen a single article that wasn't just sensationalizing the situation. The Sky West pilot absolutely overreacted. ATC did give a confusing order but immediately corrected that direction. The general population seems to be routing for a collapse of the airline industry at this point.
jul 22, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
He had nothing to apologize for.
jul 21, 2025, 1:52 am • 11 0 • view
"Sorry folks, your tax dollars didn't go towards ensuring that Air Force jackoff actually knows how to fly a fucking plane without killing anyone"
jul 21, 2025, 1:56 am • 12 2 • view
… ATC should head on strike and let Trump dare pull a Dutch Reagan
jul 22, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
Flying the unfriendly skies
jul 21, 2025, 2:08 am • 2 0 • view
Yup, sounds more like we've got middle eastern terrorists working in the airline industry...... DEI hires, perhaps?
jul 21, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Sean Duffy hard at work putting MORE American lives in danger. When is it not DEI's fault again?
jul 22, 2025, 12:15 am • 2 0 • view
Military doing such a great job of keeping us safe.
jul 21, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
Trump did this
jul 22, 2025, 12:59 am • 8 1 • view
None of these close encounters happened under the previous administration
jul 21, 2025, 10:22 pm • 11 0 • view
So many near misses and collisions under drunk hesgeths watch. Coincidence? Me thinks not.
jul 22, 2025, 12:16 am • 8 0 • view
I assume the pilot would be in trouble if he announced a military jet almost caused a collision.
jul 21, 2025, 3:59 am • 3 0 • view
Says the commercial pilot, lol. Sounds like we've got middle eastern terrorists working in the airline industry...... DEI hires, perhaps?
jul 21, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I think military flights don't give as much deference to civilian air traffic control as they ought to.
jul 21, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Neither one should be giving deference to each other. Control should be from air traffic controllers at a commercial airport who would/should know what's happening on the base. Air Force flights are planned too. Someone in air traffic control screwed up.
jul 21, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I defer to you, then.
jul 21, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sure we'll hear more over the next few days but, it's definitely the commercial airports air traffic controllers who are aware/in control of everything going on in the airspace close by. It's getting pretty scary out there. apnews.com/article/airl...
jul 22, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Evidently the local flight controllers didn't even have radar. I suspect two large aircraft in their control area is a rarity.
jul 22, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow! I can't imagine not having radar. It will be interesting to see what's said when the investigation is complete. There would be times when an airforce base would need to send up planes under emergency situations. I'm surprised this hasn't led to accidents already.
jul 22, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
As I said, I bet, in this area, two bigger non-general aviation planes are almost never in that airspace at the same time.
jul 22, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Guess that radar stealth really works, huh?
jul 21, 2025, 2:04 am • 2 0 • view
lol. The B-52 is known almost exclusively as BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fucker) Probably the least stealthy thing flying other than a blimp.
jul 21, 2025, 2:12 am • 5 0 • view
Right!!!! 🤦♂️ Got the B-52 and B-2 backwards!
jul 21, 2025, 2:14 am • 1 0 • view
TRUMP'S FAA 🧵thread bsky.app/profile/edhi...
jul 21, 2025, 1:48 am • 16 1 • view