Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
How does one track to the Missed Approach point, presumably climbing, then "mandatory at 600ft turn right track 070"?
It’s an interesting question, however the AIP does state:
A published missed approach procedure must not be flown unless commenced at the MAPT. If a missed approach climb is initiated before the MAPT, the aircraft must track to the MAPT before commencing the missed approach procedure.
So in this case the crew had no alternative but to continue straight ahead to the MAPT before commencing the turn (from the diagrams though it does look like the crew essentially continued to the far runway end before commencing the turn - and given the initial GA instruction was at 400’, the turn may possibly have been a little late). It’s also worth mentioning that the controllers efforts to vector the 737 resulted in them being vectored below radar lowest safe.
Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight the safest course of action would have been accepting that separation standards on the runway to be compromised and allow the 73 to land.
This is a bit like the LAHSO incident in ML several years ago, where the decision to make aircraft go around creates a greater safety risk.
Damned if you do, dammed if you don’t really.