Runway incursions - or excursions....
Read through the whole thread, expecting only the usual PPRuNe schadenfreude.....(pleasure felt at some one else's misfortune).
ALEXANDER MEERKAT in post 150 refers us to an FAA runway incursion animation (with potential major disaster implications). If there are any actual pilots still reading this thread, please click onto that post 150.
Because the only thing that prevented another Teneriffe calamity was the good sense and airmanship of the US Air pilot who refused to take off when ATC told him it was OK, and it was NOT OK. Said the US Air pilot, "we will hold short until you get it figured out....."
I hope he got a big increase in salary, he earned it that evening.
The other sensible contributor is Pukindog, if he was in command of my aircraft I would trust his judgement any night, even at O'Hare - or Africa.