HKg ATC / weather
to ATC folk and pilots if they care to answer,
Why would ATC clear an aircraft for takeoff when,
1 there have been ground based windshear warnings,
2 there is a thunderstorm overhead,
3 the rain is so heavy that viz has reduced to less than 1000m,
4 the wind is in excess of any aircraft crosswind limit that I have flown,
5 an aircraft at the hold reported several onboard "windshear ahead" warnings,
6 previous aircraft had refused to takeoff until conditions cleared.
Why would you ask an aircraft "xxx, would you like to have a go".
Because an aircraft did "have a go".
Does anybody learn any lessons in this part of the world?