Yes, quite wrong to depart. (We are told SQ29 had been airborne for seven minutes).
Chocks are ground equipment, as are GPU's and sets of aircraft steps etc. If I had run over a set of chocks then where I next landed would, subject to all systems showing normal, be up to me, the consequences the same be it Taipei or Singapore. If I had run into a set of steps then obviously a very different story.
Still waiting for an accurate transcript from the ATC/cockpit exchanges.
Still too soon to draw any conclusions.
Last edited by BlueEagle; 20th Jul 2002 at 12:02.