Qantas 737 And Jetstar A320 In Dangerous Midnight Runway Mix-up

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The ATSB has launched an investigation after a Qantas 737 was in the process of leaving Darwin Airport at the same time as a Jetstar A320 was preparing to land on the same runway.

The incident significantly occurred at 12:17 am on Wednesday when the air traffic control tower was closed.

Images from Flightradar24, above, appear to show the outbound aircraft taking a significant detour from its usual route to avoid a collision.

In a statement released on Friday, the ATSB said it would examine “all available evidence” to determine the extent of the communication between the two narrowbody passenger planes.

“A final report will be released at the conclusion of the investigation,” it said. “Should a critical safety issue be identified during the course of the investigation, the ATSB will immediately notify relevant partie so that appropriate safety action can be taken.”

The statement is yet to clarify exactly how far into the take-off the Qantas 737 was, but it did state the incident is considered an “aircraft separation issue”. Flightradar24 lists the outbound aircraft’s actual time of departure as 12:47 am and the inbound plane’s landing time as 12:59 am.

It comes just a month after Poročalo je avstralsko letalstvo how the ATSB would monitor the introduction of new take-off procedures at Sydney Airport after a British Airways 787 and Qantas A330 flew too close to each other in September last year.

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V incidentu se je aktiviral sistem za izogibanje trčenju Boeingovega letala, preden je njegov prvi častnik opazil Airbus.

A report into the loss of separation occurrence’ revealed how an unusual set of circumstances led to the mix-up, including that the traditionally longer-haul A330-200 was operating a domestic flight meaning it had a higher climb performance.

Stuart Macleod, direktor ATSB za prometno varnost, je dejal: »Ohranjanje ločevanja na območjih terminalov z velikim prometom, kot je Sydney, zahteva, da tako kontrolorji kot letalske posadke ostanejo pozorni, vzdržujejo odprto komunikacijo in uporabljajo razpoložljive sisteme in orodja za zmanjšanje tveganja. napak.

"Pri določanju zaporedja odhodov bi morali kontrolorji upoštevati številne dejavnike, vključno s tem, kako bo trajanje leta (in s tem povezana obremenitev z gorivom) verjetno vplivalo na zmogljivost letala pri vzpenjanju."