This is probably the most serious incident to occur in Australia for a long time. A heavily laden (pax and fuel) wide body aircraft is still on the ground at the upwind end of a 12000ft runway, suffers a tail strike during rotation, takes out part of the ILS and some lighting. As someone else said, this is spine chilling. If indeed the crew were flown out of Australia within hours of the event, then someone should be asking some very serious questions.
