Two passenger planes only narrowly avoided colliding with construction vehicles and workers during takeoff at Melbourne airport because their flight crews were unaware the runway had been shortened by nearly 1,600 metres, an Australian safety investigation has found. On Tuesday, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau released its final report into the incidents, which occurred in September 2023, when two planes overshot the end of the same runway on takeoff, 11 days apart. The runway had been temporarily shortened from 3,657 metres to 2,089 metres to allow for night-time resurfacing works
Planes came within metres of hitting Melbourne airport workers because flight crews unaware of shortened runway
Passenger planes come within metres of hitting workers at Melbourne airport
