C'mon, folks. In 3 pages no-one has mentioned directly that Cathay:
- got and acknowledged an instruction to turn left to 010 - and 38 seconds later was still goofing along on course ~090.
- when reminded of the turn, had forgotten the heading assigned
- was confused about whether he was flying an ILS or visual
I mean, seriously - all you have to talk about is "ATC this" and "United that" and "RA something else?" I don't want to be especially hard on Cathay - but let's not lose sight of the real story here.