Originally Posted by
spornrad
Tower say again. Not a native speaker, but that "line up and wait" instruction is ultra rapid machine gun style. Even when repeating it several times no chance for me to understand the details?
Welcome to the US. When this occurs I always ask to say again slower and it works. No-one should be guessing or asuming take off instruction.. But we're missing the readback and possible previous transmissions to make a judgement here based on this audio. . Unless the magic words 'take off" were said at some point , no-one should attempt to take off. period.