Curious incident :)

In article . com,
"Ramapriya" wrote:

Saw an amusing incident today at the Dubai Airport; hadn't ever seen
such a thing earlier.

A Dragonair 747 taxied on to the east-west aligned runway at the
western end. Although the runway threshold is just east of that point,
the aircraft turned west and did a 180 at the adjoining circular tarmac
pad. Just as it centered on the runway, a FedEx MD-11 landed from above
in front of it. I noticed that the MD-11 had barely begun its turn on
the exit at the far end when smoke came off the 747 tires. The takeoff
roll had begun.

Though the runway sequence was very time-efficient, it left me feeling
that it'd have been fun had the MD-11 come slightly low in the
glideslope or encountered mild windshear )

How often does such a sequence happen where you live?

Ramapriya

Aircraft should NEVER be cleared to "position and hold" with landing
traffic on final, unless they can take off and clear the runway before
the landing traffic arrives.

It sounds like either a controller error or a Dragonair pilot error.

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Just a stab here, but the smoke coulda been from a locked up brake
assembly. It does sound like the 747 was cleared to position and hold
in front of a landing aircraft. Unless something was lost in
translation?

Maybe the 747's takeoff clearance was cancelled as the controller has
to maintain runway separation and the MD was still on the runway?