Planes were metres from colliding at Dublin Airport

A COLLISION between two commercial aircraft was narrowly avoided at Dublin Airport last year after an alert crew noticed another plane was about to encroach onto the main runway as they were about to land.

The incident occurred on October 16 last year as a Germanwings flight from Cologne with 132 passengers and crew was approaching the runway at about 10.30am in good weather.

The crew of the German aircraft aborted the landing and operated an immediate go-round manoeuvre after they noticed a Turkish Airlines aircraft about to taxi onto the same runway.