At Sydney Airport on a Sunday morning, two commercial aircraft came within moments of collision on the tarmac — a near-miss that is less a story of individual error than of a system stretched beyond its safe limits. Airservices Australia has been unable to fill its air traffic control rosters for three consecutive days, forcing the nation's busiest airport to slow its own heartbeat just to keep moving. One crew member's injury and a cancelled flight are the human punctuation on a structural sentence that has been building for days, raising quiet but urgent questions about what happens when the
Near-miss at Sydney Airport amid staffing crisis injures crew member
One Jetstar crew member required medical attention at the scene following the near-miss incident.