Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
I got a "cancel takeoff clearance" once up in CLE when the other tower controller cleared trucks across the runway. For a few minutes CLE thought we took off without a takeoff clearance, in fact said so over the frequency, before they realized what had happened and we called them on the phone later and they were like "sorry bout that, bye!" ?
But I'll cover for ATC because I've been covered a lot of times.
Hey Carl, FTB, *0, Bar, et al :
Many years ago during the late Southeast Asia war games, two Navy F4's launched off the boat with drop tanks. One of them got a drop tank fire. I believe it was the Airboss that broadcast " F4 off the cat, you're on fire, Eject, Eject".
Four F4 bubbas pulled the handles and left two airplanes. Navy guys feel free to correct my fuzzy memory, but once again the law of unintended consequences reared its' head. Might be applicable to this current issue that carl raised.
Regards to all....