Originally Posted by
CaptainCarl
IIRC, about a month ago, the Director of Flight Ops at Trans States took a take-off clearance with one engine shutdown. When they couldn't get it going on the runway, he cancelled T/O clearance and taxied back to the gate. Unfortunately for him, there were four TSA non-revs in the back and I can only imagine the looks of concern and confusion they were passing each other.
Of course, I can neither confirm nor deny whether any of this really happened. A rumor that followed was that he was removed from his position and his certificates were pulled. Some of the active Trans States guys can chime in any time and correct me if I'm wrong.
That doesn't really sound like an FAR violation, why would they pull his tickets? Unless he actually started the roll SE...
I know of an identical situation at 32L/T10 with a check airman doing a line check...he let them get as far as accepting Po&Ho before intervening. They did an RTG, and the crew got some additional training before being allowed back on line. basically they got real busy and forgot...but they would have realized ther mistake real quick, even without the check airman.