Pilots of a QantasLink De Havilland Dash 8-300 inadvertently lined up with runway edge lights during the take-off roll from Mildura airport in February, Australian investigators have disclosed.

The aircraft ploughed through lights on the edge of the runway before it took off shortly before dawn last week.

In a report released on Thursday, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said that it appeared that Mr. Larsen had not used the pilot-controlled runway lights and had turned ...

Lights designed to prevent runway incursions were out of service when a Japan Coast Guard plane collided with an arriving Japan Airlines Co. passenger jet at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2.