Reports of near-miss at Melbourne Airport | News.com.au
Reports of near-miss at Melbourne Airport
Officials say some planes aborted landings in Melbourne today, but denied a near-miss. Picture: Dean Marzolla Source: News Limited
- Qantas plane aborts landing "at 10m"
- Seconds from collision, passenger says
- No near-miss, say officials
MELBOURNE travellers have told of a near miss between a landing Qantas 767 jet and a Jetstar plane on the ground at Melbourne Airport today.
Martin Russell said that just after 3pm (AEDT) a Qantas jet was 10 metres above the runway but aborted the landing and took off, the Herald-Sun reports.
He said 10 seconds later a Jetstar plane appeared on the ground at the spot on the east-west runway where the Qantas jet was about to land.
Mr Russell, a businessman from Hawthorn, said that if the Qantas plane had not taken off, there would have been a head-on crash.
But a spokesman for Air Services Australia, which runs the airport control towers, said there had been no reports of a near-miss incident.
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