“Sorry about the aggressive maneuver,” the heroic pilot said in the footage shared on social media. “It caught me by surprise. This is not normal at all. I don’t know why they didn’t give us a heads-...

A pilot apologized on Friday night for an apparent close call in the sky with a B-52 bomber while traveling from Minneapolis to Minot, North Dakota.

“Sorry about the aggressive maneuver,” the pilot, who has not been named in reports, said, according to a video from the plane verified by NBC News.

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday it is investigating a near miss between a SkyWest Airlines jet and a U.S. Air Force jet over North Dakota last week. SkyWest Flight 3788, an Embraer ERJ-175 operating as a Delta Connection flight from Minneapolis to Minot,

The pilot of a regional airliner flying over North Dakota made an unexpected sharp turn to avoid a possible midair collision with a military B-52 bomber that was in its flight path over the weekend.