Two international airliners carrying hundreds of people narrowly averted disaster when they overshot a runway and took off just metres above airport workers.

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Both aircraft flew so close to an active Melbourne airport site that jet blast affected the area, a report says, resulting in a stress-related injury to a worker.

Their flight crews were unaware the runway had been shortened by more than 1.5km for night resurfacing works, resulting in two near misses within a fortnight.

A Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330-300 first overran the runway that had been reduced to about 2km on September 7, 2023, when it took off, passing seven metres above the a

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