At Sydney Airport on a quiet Sunday morning, two aircraft came close enough to touch — a Jetstar jet braking hard to avoid a towed Qatar Airways plane — and in that moment of near-collision, a larger question surfaced: how much strain can a complex system absorb before its failures become visible? The incident, the second of its kind in a fortnight at Australia's busiest airport, has drawn the government into the machinery of aviation safety, with Transport Minister Catherine King calling industry leaders to account and investigators beginning the careful work of tracing where coordination bro
Aviation heads summoned after Jetstar, Qatar Airways near-miss at Sydney Airport
No casualties reported; Qatar Airways aircraft was unoccupied at time of incident, though Jetstar flight carried passengers.