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Brett Gibbons

Ryanair holiday jets including UK-bound flight in near miss at Spanish airport

Two Ryanair jets narrowly avoided a serious collision at a busy Spanish holiday airport, it has been revealed.

An official probe by the Spanish civil aviation authority (CIAIAC) found an air traffic controller at Malaga airport had given one plane the green light to land whilst another was preparing to take-off on the same runway.

The two Boeing 737s were just 520 metres apart at one stage which occurred on September 11, 2019.

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