Originally Posted by
Colonel_Klink
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.
I thought about this option too - but then what happens if the A330 aborts their takeoff? That would probably be a lot worse?