On Friday evening, a B-52 plane nearly had a close encounter with a connecting flight to Minneapolis and a Bailey Zimmerman concert in Minot, North Dakota.
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All while Zimmerman was getting ready to play at the North Dakota State Fair for his New To Country Summer Tour, a Delta Connection flight to Minneapolis was planning to descend into the North Dakota airport.
However, the pilot was caught off guard when he saw a military plane, a B-52 Stratofortress, flying right towards them.
According to the Air Force, the B-52 might have belonged to the Minot Air Force Base nearby, which had done a flyover of the fair that evening. They confirmed that it was, in fact, “a B-52 aircraft assigned to Minot [Air Force Base] that conducted a flyover of the North Dakota State Fair.”
Pilot Addresses What Happened in the Almost-Collision
The pilot of the Delta Connection flight, whose identity hasn’t been disclosed, told his passengers after avoiding a potential collision that “It caught me by surprise,” and that “this is not normal at all.”…