One of the war games, Exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025, trained U.S. military personnel to maintain readiness and execute missions under stress.

A civilian aircraft was forced to take a sharp turn near Minot Air Force Base as a B-52 Stratofortress flew near it Friday evening.

The incident came a little over a month after an Air India plane crashed on top of a medical college hostel in neighbouring India’s Ahmedabad city, killing 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground, marking the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade.

Resolute Force Pacific is designed to evaluate the Air Force’s agile combat employment strategy, which emphasizes rapid deployment, flexible basing and dispersal operations.

According to the military and a fire official, the Chinese-made F-7 BGI aircraft crashed into the campus of Milestone School and College, in the Uttara neighborhood, in the afternoon as students were attending classes.