JetBlue flight near Venezuela avoids 'midair collision' with US Air Force tanker
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A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path.

“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.”

The incident involved JetBlue Flight 1112 from Curaçao, which is just off the coast of Venezuela, en route to New York City’s JFK airport. It comes as the U.S. military has stepped up its drug interdiction activities in the Caribbean and is also seeking to increase pressure on Venezuela’s government.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Yes, Democrats are largely warmongers too, but that they ran the table against his handpicked candidates shows a clear repudiation of his policies and governance.

    The Republicans and Democrats are basically uniparty on foreign policy and regime change. People are opposed to the thousands of ways he’s ruining our bags. Americans have not suddenly gained a conscience with respect to the atrocities our government commits outside our borders.

    Donald’s misadventures in Venezuela resulting in the deaths of Americans, on an American airliner, for no good reason, would have a profoundly negative effect on his intentions toward warmongering.

    Maybe Donald’s intentions for all of three seconds, but not the rest of the AmeriKKKan political apparatus. Life has no value in the US.