‘Near collision’ at Sydney Airport between Jetstar, Qatar planes

Safety regulators launched an investigation on Aug 9 into a “near collision” between two passenger aircraft at Australia’s busiest airport that injured a crew member.

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he incident, which involved a Jetstar pilot being forced to apply sudden brakes to avoid crashing into a Qatar Airways jet, disrupted operations at Sydney Airport.



The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said a Jetstar Airbus A320 was taxiing for a flight to the Gold Coast on Aug 9 when its crew “observed a Qatar Airways Boeing 777, under tow from an aircraft tug, in close proximity on a crossing taxiway”.



Investigators are collecting data from both aircraft and air traffic control, and interviewing crew and tug operators to determine the cause of the near collision..



It called for witnesses at the airport to send in any video of the near collision.