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.
His FO and FE were both telling him he didn't have takeoff clearance*. I'm not sure that adding another voice to the chorus would have mattered.
*ok, a little hyperbole, but they were both questioning whether they had takeoff clearance, IIRC.