Dick,
-"Considering the only airline midair collision that we have had in Australia was at Sydney Airport in what is now known as Class C airspace...."-
Gee Dick, I thought that one was on the runway, because the two aircraft were both on the active rwy at the same time, and one started his T/O run before the other had vacated.
Didn't the fin of the (Canadian?) aircraft taxying, cut the underbelly of the departing 727 as it 'lifted off' in an endeavour to avoid the (DC8?) ?
Rainy night - poor vis - lotsa lights / reflections - hard to see the just landed acft still on the rwy in the distance...
Forgive the question marks, but the memory is a little hazy - and it was a fair while back...
Hardly 'midair' though - one was firmly on the deck - and the class of 'airspace' hardly the issue....or do I have the wrong incident?
Cheers