Airport runway collisions and near-misses are happening more frequently, 22 years of data show

Jetstar Airbus A320 at Sydney Airport. Maksym Kozlenko/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SA Four close calls on Sydney Airport runways in as many weeks have put air traffic management in the spotlight. It’s too early to determine the exact cause of each one. But four ground-safety occurrences at Australia’s busiest airport in a little over three weeks raise an obvious question: how common are occurrences like these, and are they becoming more frequent? To examine the broader pattern, I analysed Australian…