An aircraft of the Swiss airline Crossair has narrowly avoided a collision, only one week after another its planes crashed in Zurich, the company said on Sunday.

A Crossair Saab 2000 taking off at Zurich airport on Saturday narrowly missed a Portugese TAP Airbus on the ground, Crossair spokesman Andreas Schwander said, confirming reports in the Swiss Sunday newspapers.
The Portugese plane was approaching an intersection on the same runway as a Jumbolino from Berlin should have landed on November 24 but it crashed in the woods on its approach, killing 24 of the 33 people aboard.
The runway had re-opened only one hour before the incident at about 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) on Saturday.
"The technical term is near miss but it was not that near," Schwander said.
The Crossair plane, carrying 20 passengers and four crew bound for Munich, had received clearance to take-off and the pilot saw the other aircraft approaching but he "judged that there won't be any danger at all", Schwander said. Bureau Report