As I remember this one.
Said party on ground was told: "BE READY IMMEDIATE".
Then after the line up, gets a clearence for take off in these words: "XXx cleared for take off"
Big jet decides to take his time on the runway as if he was in fact not ready immediate at all.
A good 30 seconds passed, nothing was moving off that runway in a hurry.
Then just after the Jet on final go's around, the jet on ground starts to roll.
Here I sit wondering why it looks like someone who started the thread is leaving out important facts. Trying to lay blame on ATC?
I believe what happened was not brilliant but in view of the fact that both jets had no further problems and no one died etc then that more or less shows that at least more than just ATC was on the BALL as to what to do.
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