Qantas planes in near miss as take-off aborted at Perth airport

Two Qantas flights had a near miss in Perth when one crossed a runway into the path of another jet that was commencing take-off. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the serious incident, which occurred Saturday after a Qantas flight from Sydney landed and nearly cut across a departing plane. The pilot of the arriving aircraft had to brake hard as the other jet, travelling to Sydney, was forced to abort take-off. An initial report from the ATSB said the aircraft that landed was supposed to stop short at a holding point before the runway but the pilots kept going until air traffic controllers told them to brake immediately. The close shave occurred in an area known as a runway incursion “hotspot”, the ATSB said. <br/>