{"id":560944,"date":"2026-08-06T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/560944\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:30:14","slug":"investigation-into-runway-incident-involving-qantas-flight-from-queenstown-to-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/560944\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into runway incident involving Qantas flight from Queenstown to Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

An investigation has been launched into a runway incident involving a Qantas<\/a> flight from New Zealand to Sydney Airport<\/p>\n

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says a “breakdown in coordination” took place on the tarmac on July 27 involving QantasLink flight QLK424 from Canberra, and flight QF124 from Queenstown.<\/p>\n

The flight from Queenstown, operated by a Boeing 737, was cleared by air traffic control (ATC) to taxi across an active runway – where the QantasLink flight, operated by a Bombardier DHC-8 had just landed.<\/p>\n

“ATC detected the conflict and advised both crews, with the 737 stopping after the holding point,” the ATSB said.<\/p>\n

In audio of the incident posted online, controllers can be heard telling pilots of the Queenstown flight to “stop immediately” as it approached the runway where the Canberra flight had just landed.<\/p>\n

The ATSB says the investigation is in its evidence collection phase which will involve interviewing all parties involved and retrieving and reviewing recorded data.<\/p>\n

“Should a critical safety issue be identified during the course of the investigation, the ATSB will immediately notify relevant parties, so that appropriate safety action can be taken.” it said.<\/p>\n

Airservices Australia, the organisation that manages air space and air traffic control across Australia, said it was assisting the ATSB with its investigation.<\/p>\n

“Safety is Airservices’ top priority. Given the matter is currently under investigation, there is nothing further we can add at this stage,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Qantas told RNZ it was also assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n

“Both Qantas aircraft were cleared to proceed following instructions from Air Traffic Control and we will support the ATSB in the investigation,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Qantas Flight QF124 departed Queenstown at 7:17am New Zealand time, landing in Sydney three hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation has been launched into a runway incident involving a Qantas flight from New Zealand to Sydney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-560944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}