‘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..