BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Air traffic controllers at a small North Dakota airport didn’t inform an Air Force bomber’s crew that a commercial airliner was flying in the same area, the military said, shedding light on the nation’s latest air safety scare.

A commercial airplane narrowly avoided a mid-air collision with a military B-52 bomber after air traffic controllers failed to alert the airliner of bomber's presence in the shared airspace, according to the U.

A SkyWest pilot’s last-second decision could have prevented a collision that air-traffic controllers may not have foreseen