G'day Jenna,
I haven't taken your comment as a smart ass criticism, I just wasn't sure what was confusing you.
The United 744 was holding at G1 (RWY25) and I at G2. They were cleared for take-off and after a long convoluted readback started inching onto the runway, very very slowly.
The three pilots on my flight deck all recognised that the 744 was entering so slowly that the next landing aircraft, a SAAB which had not long popped out of the gloop on the 07ILS, was closing fast and we weren't surprised when the 744 was instructed to hold position and the SAAB instructed to go around.
My reference to the death-defying manoeuvre is a tongue in cheek shot at journo's who often seem to sensationalise what is really a normal manoeuvre, and we see TV interviews, or read press reports of the passengers who claim that "the aircraft climbed vertically and we thaught we were gunna die"
