I can't find any reference in the CX/QF report of the Cathay flight settling back but it contains eyewitness accounts of how close they came. I can't get over this incident and the triple near miss fading from aviation memory. I have no memory of either. If any of these jets had hit they wouldn't have been forgotten even for 100 years. The only serious accidents I remember at Sydney Airport were an Ansett Viscount going down in a storm and the Advance commuter crash in 1980 because I was in a hospital waiting room watching the news waiting for worse news about a relative who died after a car crash earlier in the day.