On a quiet Sunday morning at Australia's busiest airport, the invisible choreography that keeps aircraft from colliding on the ground nearly failed — a Jetstar A320 and a Qatar Airways B777 came within moments of impact on a Sydney taxiway, saved only by a pilot's swift instinct and hard brakes. One crew member was injured in the violence of that stop, a human cost attached to what investigators now believe was a breakdown in the chain of instruction between air traffic control and the operators moving the Qatar jet. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has opened an investigation into how,
Jetstar, Qatar Airways near collision at Sydney Airport injures crew member
A Jetstar cabin crew member was injured when the aircraft made an emergency stop to avoid collision.