00:01Jetstar flight JQ402 had barely started its journey from Sydney to the Gold Coast when its pilots were forced to
00:09slam on the brakes, narrowly avoiding this Qatar Airways Boeing 777.
00:15The Jetstar plane was taxiing to the runway after 7am under the instructions of air traffic control when a crew
00:22member noticed the empty Qatar plane towed by an airport tug.
00:26Both aircraft stopped avoiding a near miss by just metres before the Jetstar plane returned to a bay.
00:33It was looking like a very close near miss.
00:37One Jetstar crew member sustained minor wrist injuries, no passengers were injured.
00:42We're about to get on a Jetstar flight so it's not great news, definitely not feeling confident now.
00:49The Transport Safety Bureau is investigating. It's understood one line of inquiry is that the Qatar Airways tug didn't follow
00:57air traffic control instructions.
01:00What instructions were given? Were those instructions followed? And if they weren't followed, at what point those decisions were made?
01:07It's not the only near miss. Two Qantas planes narrowly avoided crashing last week.
01:14Air Services Australia is also in the firing line over understaffing that's led to widespread delays.
01:20In a statement, Air Services Australia says it enacted air traffic flow management measures to space out aircraft and was
01:28working with airlines to reduce delays.
01:31I know it's hard to employ people particularly for these specialised services but this isn't a nice to have, it's
01:37a must have.
01:38A close call, a little too close for comfort.
01:41I know that the aircraft understaffing that isbeyed for the runway event when it's with히ndaquely put ehadvitts.
01:42Let's do this.
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