Hopefully Emirates rights to operate to Australia are cancelled until this is sorted out.
16 is slightly downhill (about .5° from memory), and after the perimeter road falls away into a valley. If the comment earlier about it cleaing the perimeter fence by about 10' is even close to true, then it would seem that the aircraft was at best level, and perhaps slightly descending.
Intersection departures on 16/34....with a strong southerly, the domestics will often use E (just south of the intersection). I've never seen anyone use C.