{"id":494574,"date":"2025-12-14T21:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/a-jetblue-plane-avoids-collision-with-a-u-s-military-aircraft-near-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:32:58","slug":"a-jetblue-plane-avoids-collision-with-a-u-s-military-aircraft-near-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/a-jetblue-plane-avoids-collision-with-a-u-s-military-aircraft-near-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"A JetBlue plane avoids collision with a U.S. military aircraft near Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York.<\/strong>&#8211; A plane from the American airline JetBlue coming from Cura\u00e7ao, one of the islands of the Netherlands in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela, stopped its ascent to avoid a &#8220;collision&#8221; with a refueling tanker of the United States Air Force on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing its path, according to local media reports this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We almost had a mid-air collision,&#8221; said the JetBlue pilot, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control leaked to the media.<\/p>\n<p>According to the pilot, the tanker aircraft crossed the flight path of JetBlue flight 1112 bound for New York&#8217;s JFK airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It passed directly in front of us less than five miles (about 8 kilometers), maybe two or three miles; it was a United States Air Force in-flight refueling aircraft. And it was at our altitude. We had to stop our ascent,&#8221; the pilot said in the recording.<\/p>\n<p>JetBlue spokesman Derek Dombrowski said he informed &#8220;federal authorities&#8221; this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Since last summer, the Pentagon has maintained a huge military deployment in Caribbean waters to destroy boats that, according to the Government, transport drugs and belong to networks in which the Venezuelan Executive and Army are involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a warning last month to U.S. aircraft, urging them to &#8220;exercise extreme caution&#8221; when flying over Venezuelan airspace, &#8220;due to the worsening security situation and increased military activity in or around Venezuela.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York.&#8211; A plane from the American airline JetBlue coming from Cura\u00e7ao, one of the islands of the Netherlands in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela, stopped its ascent to avoid a &#8220;collision&#8221; with a refueling tanker of the United States Air Force on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24F0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}