Narrative:

We were cleared into position and hold on 12R just after a B737 landed. Tower said there was a light jet on 4 mile final when he cleared us into position. The B737 cleared the runway as we taxied into position. Takeoff clearance was given to us as we lined up on the runway. The captain was pilot flying. As we started our takeoff roll the light jet reported that the spacing was too close and executed a go around. Conditions at the time were VFR. Tower gave him instructions to fly runways heading. I checked our TCAS and he was just behind to on top of us by 300'. I verbalized this to the captain. We were well past 80 KTS at the time. Then tower told us to cancel our takeoff clearance. We were past V1 and continued our takeoff. I told tower it was too late for an abort. I kept an eye on the TCAS; the other aircraft now +700' but still our direction. We climbed to around 400' AGL and the captain leveled off. I asked tower if he planned on turning the light jet. About the same time the aircraft started to turn left and the captain reported having visual contact with the other aircraft. I relayed that we had a visual on the other aircraft to tower. There was no longer a spacing issue and we continued the rest of our takeoff segment normally. We never got an RA. Don't issue a go-around aircraft fly runway heading when you have another airplane taking off on the same runway. Tower should not try to fix their mistake by canceling our clearance when we are already half way down the runway. A little education on the perils of high speed aborts in jets perhaps. I should have used the proper phraseology 'unable' instead of 'it's a little late for that' in my radio response to tower.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A pilot reported that during his takeoff roll a small jet behind them executed a go around and was instructed by ATC to maintain runway heading which created a conflict after their aircraft became airborne.

Narrative: We were cleared into position and hold on 12R just after a B737 landed. Tower said there was a light jet on 4 mile final when he cleared us into position. The B737 cleared the runway as we taxied into position. Takeoff clearance was given to us as we lined up on the runway. The Captain was pilot flying. As we started our takeoff roll the light jet reported that the spacing was too close and executed a go around. Conditions at the time were VFR. Tower gave him instructions to fly runways heading. I checked our TCAS and he was just behind to on top of us by 300'. I verbalized this to the Captain. We were well past 80 KTS at the time. Then Tower told us to cancel our takeoff clearance. We were past V1 and continued our takeoff. I told Tower it was too late for an abort. I kept an eye on the TCAS; the other aircraft now +700' but still our direction. We climbed to around 400' AGL and the Captain leveled off. I asked Tower if he planned on turning the light jet. About the same time the aircraft started to turn left and the Captain reported having visual contact with the other aircraft. I relayed that we had a visual on the other aircraft to Tower. There was no longer a spacing issue and we continued the rest of our takeoff segment normally. We never got an RA. Don't issue a go-around aircraft fly runway heading when you have another airplane taking off on the same runway. Tower should not try to fix their mistake by canceling our clearance when we are already half way down the runway. A little education on the perils of high speed aborts in jets perhaps. I should have used the proper phraseology 'unable' instead of 'it's a little late for that' in my radio response to Tower.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.