{"id":37405,"date":"2025-12-14T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/pilot-narrowly-avoids-midair-collision-with-us-air-force-plane-near-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:28:07","slug":"pilot-narrowly-avoids-midair-collision-with-us-air-force-plane-near-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/pilot-narrowly-avoids-midair-collision-with-us-air-force-plane-near-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot narrowly avoids \u2018midair collision\u2019 with US air force plane near Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue pilot calls incident \u2018outrageous\u2019 and says US military refueling tanker didn\u2019t have transponder turned on<\/p>\n<p>A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Cura\u00e7ao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe almost had a midair collision up here,\u201d the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. \u201cThey passed directly in our flight path &#8230; They don\u2019t have their transponder turned on, it\u2019s outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/14\/jetblue-pilot-avoids-midair-collision-air-force-venezuela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue pilot calls incident \u2018outrageous\u2019 and says US military refueling tanker didn\u2019t have transponder turned on A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Cura\u00e7ao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. \u201cWe almost had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 21:34:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}