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Two commercial flights narrowly missed work site on shortened Melbourne Airport runway in 2023
- On September 7 and September 18, 2023, Malaysia Airlines flight and Bamboo Airways flight overran a temporarily shortened runway at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, nearly hitting construction workers, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau found.
- Office-Based flight dispatchers included the reduced runway length in calculations but did not specifically brief flight crews, who assumed the full runway was available and used reduced-thrust take-offs on Runway 34 shortened by 1,568 metres.
- CCTV footage and ATSB diagrams show the Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330-300 cleared work crew by seven metres and the Bamboo Airways Boeing 787-9 passed over by 4.5 metres within a 450-metre safety zone, with 247 people on board and one worker reporting a stress-related injury.
- Airservices Australia proposed changes to air traffic control and Malaysia Airlines and Bamboo Airways updated procedures, while ATSB chief commissioner Angus Mitchell warned, `These and previous incidents show that this process is susceptible to human error.`
- The ATSB said the International Civil Aviation Organisation should review procedures after incidents where fully loaded aircraft nearly hit worksites during overnight resurfacing on Runway 34, shortened by over 40 per cent.
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Aircrew on two international aircraft failed to notice a warning from Melbourne airport, which led to two near misses in less than two weeks, placing hundreds of passengers at risk, according to a report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Both flights overshot a runway which had been temporarily shortened to accommodate resurfacing work, and lifted off the ground just metres from airport workers and equipment. Both aircraft flew so clo…
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