Jet pilot ‘saw lawnmower on runway

A STARTLED pilot involved in a late-night near miss at Dublin Airport radioed air traffic controllers to tell them he thought he saw a lawnmower on a runway, it was revealed last night.

After the Boeing 737 carrying about 200 people from an Egyptian resort touched down, the co-pilot told colleagues he “noticed a lawnmower too close to the runway edge lighting”.

The plane’s wing tip passed a few metres over the head of a maintenance man on the ride-on machine just after landing.