This was a case of treating it like a touch and go but delaying the flaps until a safe rotation was made with sufficient thrust to safely climb away.
Harry; I assume you meant they should have treated it like a touch & go---but they didn't. Is it the B777 technique to make a touch & go with landing flap? On my types it is: select GA flap, thrust, trim, accelerate, rotate.
Off course you follow them in any aircraft TL's.
Vilas: I agree with you, of course. The reason I ask, and it's no guarantee to be true, but the Air Crash Investigation of B777 at SFX showed PF flying 2 handed during the visual with nothing on TL's.
However. I have watched cadets in the sim flying A/P A/T approaches hands off everything; until my rolled up newspaper made contact with their dome. Those telescopic pointer thingies are great too.