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Old 4th December 2020, 17:10
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Alarmstartet? - Perhaps...

Having just re-read your question I got a doubt. In theory someone could possibly have written this, even in a book, but it would not be correct standard German but rather familiar, colloquial, offhand: you would speak like this very informally to some comrades, for example if all the guys involved are mechanics:

"Er alarmstartet, nachdem feindliche Flugzeuge..." (He takes off in a hurry after some enemy aircraft...).

I can imagine such a phrase but then, I am NOT German so I think our German comrades here are in a position to make a better assessment than I can. In any case this possible word can be used (because of German grammatics), if at all, only to say that a pilot (only ONE) is taking off in a hurry, in an emergency. Not possible for several ones. (It's similar in English: he takeS off means one pilot only).
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