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Intervention follows days of delays and a near-miss between two planes on the Sydney aiport tarmac. Follow today’s news live
Safety bureau chief says what happened at Sydney airport ‘is unacceptable’
Angus Mitchell , the chief commissioner at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), told ABC Radio Sydney this morning the near-miss at Sydney airport was “a serious incident” that warranted investigation.
So planes should not be getting that close and we should never have to rely on, as has happened in both these instances, pilots at the last minute, making an emergency decision to prevent them coming together.
We have a lot of controllers that have come in very recently that are gaining their qualifications. So, look, I certainly don’t want to say that that’s what sits behind these two incidents because we don’t have all the facts.
But we do know that that is a system that has had some significant challenges, as have airlines as well.
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