Qantas in near-miss at Melbourne Airport

MELBOURNE travellers have told of a near miss between a landing Qantas 767 jet and a Jetstar plane on the ground at Melbourne Airport today. Martin Russell said that just after 3pm (AEDT) a Qantas jet was 10 metres above the runway but aborted the landing and took off, the Herald-Sun reports.

He said 10 seconds later a Jetstar plane appeared on the ground at the spot on the east-west runway where the Qantas jet was about to land. Mr Russell, a businessman from Hawthorn, said that if the Qantas plane had not taken off, there would have been a head-on crash.

But a spokesman for Air Services Australia, which runs the airport control towers, said there had been no reports of a near-miss incident. He said because of wind shear, four planes had aborted landings and done a "go around'' before successfully landing.

A Qantas spokesman said a flight from Sydney had been forced to abort a landing when the plane had been “less than 100 feet” from the ground.

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