China Eastern takes off without permission in apparent misunderstanding

[Airbubba]

I sometimes have a problem with the accents in KIX but the controllers there and elsewhere in Japan are excellent from my experience.

I still hate those conditional runway clearances, 'behind landing traffic, line up and wait'. Sometimes you get them with traffic rolling out and another plane on final.

And, some of my fellow Americans are still very casual with the readbacks, the CB radio craze ended in the '70's but you'd never know it listening to the transmissions.

'Delta 280, line up and wait runway 02 left'

'Uh, 280 clear to go'

'Negative Delta 280, I say again, line up and wait runway 02 left!'

'OK, 280 on the hold'