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• Greg Waldron
ATSB: QantasLink Dash 8-300 lined up with runway edge lights after cockpit task focus during night departure
The ATSB says cockpit checks were handled as ready checks by a QantasLink De Havilland Dash 8-300 crew, but task saturation contributed to an unintended alignment with a runway’s edge lights during a night takeoff at the runway’s edge. The report underscores task prioritization over checklist execution as the primary risk driver.
