I believe there was an incident when the pilots of an aircraft were on the take off roll when they noticed (probably due to t/o warning horn) that the flaps had not been extended.
One member of the flight crew then decided to extend the flaps as the aircraft was still rolling. Unfortunately the flaps took several seconds to get to the correct position and as the aircraft took off at the set speeds the required flap position was not reached.
The end result was a crash. I do recall the incident took place in icing conditions and was a contributing factor.
Some airline SOPs require mandatory taxi back onto stand post RTO no matter when the RTO took place for maintenance inspection of brakes and there temperatures. This gives them time to cool so they can be at the most effective in case the aircraft rejects again on T/O. This event will most likely mean the filling of an ASR at some point along with associated tech log entry.
With this in mind crew reluctance to incur further delay may elect to continue.
Just to get you all thinking! Better to reject and reconfigure then take the airplane and yourself to a place neither of you have been, i.e in the testing environment be it in the simulator or the testing phase during aircraft manufacture.
Please note I'm not trying to justify or criticise any action taken by the air crew on this or any other incident, I am just highlighting the point so we can think about the situation and all learn from it.
Rgds,
AKA.