A heavy workload for air traffic controllers contributed to aircraft getting too close to each other over South Australia's west coast in November 2011, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has found.
The incident near Ceduna involved Boeing 737s operated by Qantas and Virgin.
The Virgin flight was heading from Perth to Brisbane and the Qantas flight from Port Hedland to Melbourne.
The report said the flights were well inside the 37 kilometres of separation required.
It said a 10-minute separation was required but they got within two minutes of each other.
The report found the two air traffic controllers lacked experience in coping with heavy workloads.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au
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