It now seems that the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has reported that there are a number of dangers at Australian airports. One of the events that was highlighted by the group was an engine failure due to a screwdriver that was left in a plane’s engine. There were 400 other potentially dangerous incidents that were also reported. The crew on this plane heard a loud bang shortly after take off.

When the plane, in this case, finally returned, people found a Phillips-head screwdriver in the engine. Foreign objects such as cans of paint, screwdrivers, and others have caused the treys of at least three planes to blow out, while another had to return to the airport because debris was sucked into the engine on take off.

However, the safety bureau did not stop there. They said that, in another safety scare, two planes that were on the ground almost collided. This was possibly because their lights were silhouetted against numerous other background lights. Although a near miss on the ground with planes is pretty rare, another cause shows that the wing of a taxiing plane passenger was underneath the wing of another plane at the gate.

There were also some reports of cars belonging to customers, catering trucks and fuel trucks colliding with planes. There was one incident where a plane struck a terminal wall. The incident may have occurred because the drivers failed to give way or because the plane’s breaks were either not set or failed and it started to move. In another incident, ground crew noticed a puncture hole in the fuselage of a plane as it arrived at the airport.