Originally Posted by
ACMS
Any of you blokes remember Tenerife in March 1977?
I suspect a call to stop to KLM might have been a good idea had the controller realised.
If an ATC controller yells at me to stop before V1 I'm going to have to give it very serious thought.
On that occasion it was foggy so one of the very good cases to comply.
Not that this particular captain who took off without clearance would have been likely to have done so.