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.
The incident occurred on SkyWest Flight 3788, which was operating as a Delta Connection flight, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Minot, North Dakota, SkyWest said in a statement.
The flight landed safely in Minot “after being cleared for approach by the tower but performed a go-around when another aircraft became visible in their flight path,” the statement read.
No, like I said, they’re using the same systems, the same software, the same hardware. People at different towers talk to each other on the phone and on the radio, especially during handoffs between airspaces. The computers talk to each other. IIRC the information from one tower’s radar is shared with other towers. They’re not parallel systems, it’s all the same system.
edit: I’ve been using “airspace” to mean “volume controlled by a tower”. There’s many airspaces.
OK, I get it. There’s FAA and then there’s Air Force? Is there also Army and Marines and Navy? Why don’t they all combine and make one super Voltron of airspace management?
To quote myself
Also,
Spitballing:
I think I just want to drive or take a train now.