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Delta Pilot’s Message to Passengers After Near-Miss

Footage from inside the plane reveals how the pilot explained the mishap to passengers.

Footage has revealed a pilot explaining to passengers how he navigated a near-miss with a B-52 bomber by making an “aggressive maneuver.“ The pilot of SkyWest flight 3788, which was operating as a Delta connection from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Minot, North Dakota on July 18, had to act quickly when he spotted another aircraft in his flight path. While he thought it was a “small airplane”, it was actually a B-52 bomber which had left the nearby Minot Air Force Base. After the plane landed safely at Minot, the pilot detailed what had happened to passengers. It was filmed by passenger Monica Green who uploaded the footage to social media, and was later verified by NBC News. Green told the outlet she was “So sick to my stomach that that was so close to happening.” She recalled, “I just remember the plane going, like, sideways ... and just looking straight out the window and just seeing grass, like you weren’t seeing the skyline anymore.” SkyWest told the Daily Beast that the flight had been cleared to approach the airport when it performed “a go-around” after “another aircraft became visible in their flight path.” The incident is under investigation, Sky West added.