Originally Posted by
JanetFlight
Hi all... Some rumours in some aviation web and Facebook groups are saying an EK 777 to Hyderabad last night lined up and rolled for takeoff without clearance... Tower order asked EK to stop his roll around 130kts , its was only a couple of seconds away from another Tenerife it seems ... There's a clip also wich can't post here but here's a vidcap of the red EK decelerating the TO roll while another plane crossing the rwy ahead. Can't find more on the net...
Without wishing to minimise the seriousness of the event (which elsewhere would likely prompt an AIB investigtion), beware of "real-time" action replays from the flight trackers, which are prone to suffer from synchronicity issues.
Here's another screenshot, this time from FR24 (again to be viewed with caution), which shows a rather different picture from the above:
Examination of the data would suggest that reality lay somewhere between those two extremes.