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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

US airline pilot makes ‘aggressive maneuver’ to avoid colliding with air force bomber

an airplane in a blue sky
A SkyWest plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, Arizona on 8 April 2019. Photograph: Panther Media GmbH/Alamy

The pilot of a commercial airliner has said he needed to make an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid colliding with a US air force B-52 bomber as it landed in Minot, North Dakota, on Friday.

The SkyWest airlines pilot said he had been cleared to land on a trip from Minneapolis-St Paul (MSP) to Minot when he spotted the vast nuclear-capable bomber on his right side and was told to go around.

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