Recall being with my parents, seeing my grandmother on a VC-10 at JNB in the late 60s, I was a teenager. We stayed to watch the departure (not so long to wait in those days!) and there was an RTO from fairly good speed.
We all groaned, "Oh No, they're going to off load and we've got her back"
Happily they rotated normally on the next attempt. Following an exchange of letters with gran when she got home, we got the reply, "Oh, was there something wrong? I thought they always did that." She was obviously well into the sherry ...
