EXCLUSIVE: Sydney airport near-miss involved controllers flagged as high-fatigue risk, records show ↧ ↧ EXCLUSIVE: Sydney airport near-miss involved controllers flagged as... Several air traffic controllers on duty when two Qantas aircraft nearly collided at Sydney airport in July had been flagged as facing a high risk of fatigue, ​according to internal records and a call recording obtained by Reuters, a staffing situation one shift manager described as "a bit insane".