Originally Posted by
aterpster
You need to read the NTSB interview with the tower controller. Here's an excerpt:
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First of all ...
The controller told AC to go around after the crew had already initiated the procedure so it is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter how bad the approach was flown or how close they came to other aircrafts on the taxiway in so far as the CVR and DFDR are concerned.
My two points here are not about the Go Around itself but a reply about why some of you think the CVR and DFDR should have been preserved.
#1 - Again, there is no Canadian rule of law or Air Canada directive that state that the CVR and DFDR must be preserved after an incident like this. If there were such directives, to preserve both contents everytime there was a GA, wouldn’t you be grounding the aircraft and perhaps crews at every incident until the CVR and DFDR are read and a report concluded?
#2 - Whether justified or not, I am convinced those two pilots never thought about the CVR and DFDR because in
“their minds” they had just accomplished a GA followed by a normal landing even though they
might have known it was a close call.